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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:40:21 -0500
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Subject: Re: dell rbu driver and FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
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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.