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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Abhay_Salunke@Dell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ranty@debian.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new Dell BIOS update driver
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 23:36:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1117143380.12036.71.camel@pegasus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050526203757.GA18723@kroah.com>

Hi Abhay,

> > static int __init dcdrbu_init(void)
> > {
> >         int rc = 0;
> >         const struct firmware *fw;
> > 
> >         device_initialize(&rbu_device_type);
> >         device_initialize(&rbu_device);
> > 
> >         strncpy(rbu_device.bus_id,"dell_rbu.bin", BUS_ID_SIZE);
> >         strncpy(rbu_device_type.bus_id,"dell_rbu1.bin", BUS_ID_SIZE);
> > 
> >         rc = request_firmware(&fw, "dell_rbu_type", &rbu_device_type);
> 
> Try registering the device with sysfs first.

and then you use the same device for both calls and put the firmware
names into the request_firmware() calls. This is the filename you are
going to request from userspace.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-26 21:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-26 16:37 [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new Dell BIOS update driver Abhay_Salunke
2005-05-26 16:56 ` Matt Domsch
2005-05-26 20:37 ` Greg KH
2005-05-26 21:36   ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-20 23:50 [patch 2.6.12-rc3]dell_rbu: " Abhay Salunke
2005-07-09  1:07 Abhay Salunke
2005-06-17 14:55 [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: " Abhay_Salunke
2005-06-17 15:29 ` Greg KH
2005-06-15 17:59 Abhay Salunke
2005-06-16 18:52 ` Greg KH
2005-06-20  0:36 ` Andrew Morton
2005-06-02 23:26 Abhay Salunke
2005-06-02 23:58 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-06-03 12:32   ` Andreas Henriksson
2005-06-05 21:51   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-06-02 18:36 Abhay Salunke
2005-06-02 21:44 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-26 18:43 Abhay_Salunke
2005-05-23 14:52 Abhay_Salunke
2005-05-23 14:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-23 14:59 ` Marcel Holtmann
2005-05-23 15:48 ` Greg KH
2005-05-19 12:03 Abhay_Salunke
2005-05-19 14:42 ` Greg KH
2005-05-18 18:13 Abhay Salunke
2005-05-19  3:32 ` Greg KH
2005-05-13 19:00 Abhay Salunke
2005-05-13 21:11 ` Alexey Dobriyan

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