From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753901AbaGJOyj (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:54:39 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:56563 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751051AbaGJOyi (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 10:54:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:54:17 -0700 From: Greg KH To: B_B_Singh@DELL.com Cc: tiwai@suse.de, Abhay_Salunke@DELL.com, arnd@arndb.de, kay@vrfy.org, ming.lei@canonical.com, sr@denx.de, teg@jklm.no, Stuart_Hayes@DELL.com, Srinivas_G_Gowda@DELL.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree Message-ID: <20140710145417.GB18412@kroah.com> References: <14048583172593@kroah.com> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBE9@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <20140710143144.GA17639@kroah.com> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBF0@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBF0@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 08:10:01PM +0530, B_B_Singh@DELL.com wrote: > Resending the mail.. > > Hi All, > > As I communicated earlier the test never passed with older BIOS DUPs. That test? What patch? Please be explicit, I deal with thousands of patches and have no short term memory... > Again today I have tested with 3.15.5 kernel with below patch applied, > & I don't see the BIOS getting updated. The BIOS update always failed > with below patch.  > > I'm not sure why the patch is getting committed even upon failure. Because in that long and winding email thread I thought you said this patch _worked_. Obviously I was wrong, sorry, please suggest an alternative. greg k-h