From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753876AbaGJPYr (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:24:47 -0400 Received: from ausc60pc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.206]:4942 "EHLO ausc60pc101.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753508AbaGJPYp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Jul 2014 11:24:45 -0400 X-LoopCount0: from 10.170.28.41 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.01,638,1400043600"; d="scan'208";a="666158946" From: To: CC: , , , , , , , , , Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 08:24:36 -0700 Subject: RE: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree Thread-Topic: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree Thread-Index: Ac+cTuVUq3rtYsq6Sb2WudbwheHWTQAA54nA Message-ID: <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBC09@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> References: <14048583172593@kroah.com> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBE9@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <20140710143144.GA17639@kroah.com> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBF0@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <20140710145417.GB18412@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: <20140710145417.GB18412@kroah.com> Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-titus-version: 3.5.29.3 x-tituslabs-classifications-30: TLPropertyRoot=Dell;Classification=No Restrictions;Sublabels=; x-tituslabs-classificationhash-30: VgNFIFU9Hx+/nZJb9Kg7InDH93xORGEHKbA9IfhlEtn0qHTQFq3peMi1oTN1blvyvYuo1qgfJV7Hw3Wmh3Zl2qAkIKTy5uMotBLYynVY90QfrYbuBMDR6PhiGcJ8+jL/TRK0VzliY3AoVDXA9WbnI5NKGzNCCxKKOkcPwGOk58mV3bTRFo9skQ7WxIuKIz9sTbb/HnG7Z0IGuOudHOXnBJEwxWpno8oWkLCzSdltjKQM+lvBrq0xolISGf3WXugQtwZawQv4SCiQM2blR9VPPPcRUc3IC9x+11yeNzgXu2nibEJ5JybIdxSOAaWVyZeh x-titusconfig: 1.4AMER acceptlanguage: en-US Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sorry Greg, Here is the patch which I was referring to https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/327 I was doing the BIOS update test using the DELL BIOS-DUP's with the above patch. Will provide you more technical analysis on why it is failing by tomorrow. Regards Balaji Singh -----Original Message----- From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@linuxfoundation.org] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:24 PM To: Singh, B B Cc: tiwai@suse.de; Abhay_Salunke@dell.com; arnd@arndb.de; kay@vrfy.org; ming.lei@canonical.com; sr@denx.de; teg@jklm.no; Hayes, Stuart; Gowda, Srinivas G; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree 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