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From: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com>
To: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
	Michael Brown <mebrown@michaels-house.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>
Subject: Re: Class device namespaces
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:58:44 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090428215844.GA1396@sysman-doug.us.dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac3eb2510904281046i6e9899acg89f7606da783f72c@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:46:57PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 19:39, Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com> wrote:
> 
> > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
> > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
> 
> These pathes only ever exist for a fraction of a second, during a
> kernel initiated firmware request. This request is usually only
> handled by the udev firmware loader script, and not interesting for
> anything else. Are you replacing the udev firmware script here? Are
> you sure you do something else here?

A Dell library writes data to those paths when a Dell BIOS Update Package is run and requests the BIOS image to be loaded into memory.

Doug


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-28 22:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-29 15:48 Class device namespaces Jean Delvare
2009-03-29 16:36 ` Kay Sievers
2009-03-30  8:49   ` Jean Delvare
2009-03-30 11:24     ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-26  6:54       ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-26 12:44         ` Matt Domsch
2009-04-26 13:01           ` Matt Domsch
2009-04-27 15:30             ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-27 17:30               ` Matt Domsch
2009-04-26 13:42         ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-27 16:00           ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-27 21:57             ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28  8:08               ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-28 12:36                 ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-29 12:19                   ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-27 13:20         ` Michael E Brown
2009-04-27 15:27           ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-27 17:23             ` Michael Brown
2009-04-28  8:10               ` Jean Delvare
2009-04-28 17:39                 ` Doug Warzecha
2009-04-28 17:46                   ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28 21:58                     ` Doug Warzecha [this message]
2009-04-29  1:42                       ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-29  3:19                         ` Michael Brown
2009-04-29 10:30                           ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-29 17:00                             ` Michael Brown
2009-04-29 19:10                               ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-29 21:28                                 ` Michael Brown
2009-04-29 21:53                                   ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-30 15:18                                     ` David Dillow
2009-04-30 16:34                                       ` Kay Sievers
2009-04-28 19:06                   ` Jean Delvare

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