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From: Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>
To: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>
Cc: "Abhay Salunke" <abhay_salunke@dell.com>,
	"Cristian Rodríguez" <crrodriguez@opensuse.org>,
	"Takashi Iwai" <tiwai@suse.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"systemd Mailing List" <systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Hayes, Stuart" <Stuart_Hayes@dell.com>,
	"Singh, B B" <B_B_Singh@dell.com>
Subject: Re: dell rbu driver and FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:40:21 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53FCC685.8060305@dell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG-2HqULGgC5ftNKOML4XJZ5v_1b+z0t92nctTh7RB2tniRb9Q@mail.gmail.com>


On 08/26/2014 12:20 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@suse.com>  wrote:
> The rework is now upstream, but not yet released [1].
>
> The dell driver dose not use rely on udev in userspace, nor the
> /lib/firmware path. It has its own userspace component, which just
> happens to reuse some of the infrastructure the udev firmware helper
> used to use. This has now been split up, and as of 3.17 the firmware
> loader can safely be removed from udev.
>
> [1]:<http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5a1379e8748a5cfa3eb068f812d61bde849ef76c>
Loop in Stuart Hayes and BB Singh.  RBU support is primarily used/supported on poweredge today, and they should be able to help comment and sort this out.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-26 17:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20140826170946.GP3347@wotan.suse.de>
2014-08-26 17:14 ` dell rbu driver and FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER Luis R. Rodriguez
2014-08-26 17:20   ` Tom Gundersen
2014-08-26 17:40     ` Mario Limonciello [this message]

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