From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:36030 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752334AbeEJUJN (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 16:09:13 -0400 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, keescook@chromium.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, maco@android.com, andy.gross@linaro.org, david.brown@linaro.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, teg@jklm.no, wagi@monom.org, hdegoede@redhat.com, andresx7@gmail.com, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kubakici@wp.pl, shuah@kernel.org, mfuzzey@parkeon.com, dhowells@redhat.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, tiwai@suse.de, kvalo@codeaurora.org, arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com, zajec5@gmail.com, nbroeking@me.com, markivx@codeaurora.org, broonie@kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Abhay_Salunke@dell.com, jewalt@lgsinnovations.com, oneukum@suse.com, cantabile.desu@gmail.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, arve@android.com, tkjos@android.com, corbet@lwn.net, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: [PATCH v7 13/14] Documentation: remove stale firmware API reference Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 13:08:49 -0700 Message-Id: <20180510200850.5958-14-mcgrof@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20180510200850.5958-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> References: <20180510200850.5958-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: It refers to a pending patch, but this was merged eons ago. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- Documentation/dell_rbu.txt | 5 +---- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt index 0fdb6aa2704c..5d1ce7bcd04d 100644 --- a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt +++ b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt @@ -121,10 +121,7 @@ read back the image downloaded. .. note:: - This driver requires a patch for firmware_class.c which has the modified - request_firmware_nowait function. - - Also after updating the BIOS image a user mode application needs to execute + After updating the BIOS image a user mode application needs to execute code which sends the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot the BIOS knows about the new image downloaded and it updates itself. Also don't unload the rbu driver if the image has to be updated. -- 2.17.0