Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-07 Thread Shuah Khan
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> >> Hm? 3.16 doesn't contain my patch yet. It's merged for 3.17-rc1. >> > >> > Oh, you are right of course, I am on upstream kernel and I have your >> > patch. I don't mean your match is causing the issue though ;-). >> > >> >> I think this

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:00:24 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois > wrote: > > 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > >> At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, > >> Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > >>> > >>> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : > >>>

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-07 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:00:24 -0600, Shuah Khan wrote: On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois jhautb...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-07 Thread Shuah Khan
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:57 AM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: Hm? 3.16 doesn't contain my patch yet. It's merged for 3.17-rc1. Oh, you are right of course, I am on upstream kernel and I have your patch. I don't mean your match is causing the issue though ;-). I think this is what

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Shuah Khan
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : >> At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, >> Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >>> >>> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : >>> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> >>> Yes, it

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:24:37 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-06 12:52 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200, > > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > >> > >> 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > >> > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, > >> > Jean-Michel

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-06 12:52 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200, > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : >> > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, >> > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> >> >> 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : >> >> > At

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, > > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > >> > >> 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > >> > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, > >> > Jean-Michel

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : >> > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, >> > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> >> >> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : >> >> > On Tue,

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, > > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > >> > >> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : > >> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >>

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : >> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> >>> Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. >> >> >>

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > >>> Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. > >> > > > > ok it works when the firmware is in

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >>> Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. >> > > ok it works when the firmware is in /lib/firmware. It sounds to me the > reason load fails when the firmware is under

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan shuahk...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. ok it works when the firmware is in /lib/firmware. It sounds to me the reason load fails when the

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan shuahk...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. ok it works when the

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan shuahk...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan shuahk...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200,

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-06 12:52 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 13:24:37 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 12:52 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200,

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-06 Thread Shuah Khan
On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Jean-Michel Hautbois jhautb...@gmail.com wrote: 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan shuahk...@gmail.com: On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM,

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Shuah Khan
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote: >> Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. > ok it works when the firmware is in /lib/firmware. It sounds to me the reason load fails when the firmware is under /sys/class/firmware is fw_load_from_user_helper()

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:55:40 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-05 17:53 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > > At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, > > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > >> > >> 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 : > >> > Hi Takashi, > >> > > >> > Sorry for the late response, I tried with

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-05 17:53 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 : >> > Hi Takashi, >> > >> > Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. >> > surprisingly the BIOS update works even without

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 : > > Hi Takashi, > > > > Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. > > surprisingly the BIOS update works even without applying the patch in both > > the cases. > >

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 : > Hi Takashi, > > Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. > surprisingly the BIOS update works even without applying the patch in both > the cases. Hi,I'm sorry for my late answer too, but I didn't try this patch recently... I have

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 b_b_si...@dell.com: Hi Takashi, Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. surprisingly the BIOS update works even without applying the patch in both the cases. Hi,I'm sorry for my late answer too, but I didn't try this patch

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 b_b_si...@dell.com: Hi Takashi, Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. surprisingly the BIOS update works even without applying the patch in both the cases.

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Jean-Michel Hautbois
2014-08-05 17:53 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 b_b_si...@dell.com: Hi Takashi, Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. surprisingly the BIOS update works

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:55:40 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-05 17:53 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de: At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 b_b_si...@dell.com: Hi Takashi, Sorry for the late response, I tried

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-05 Thread Shuah Khan
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory. ok it works when the firmware is in /lib/firmware. It sounds to me the reason load fails when the firmware is under /sys/class/firmware is

RE: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-08-01 Thread B_B_Singh
, 2014 12:32 AM To: Singh, B B Cc: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; abhay_salu...@dell.com; a...@arndb.de; k...@vrfy.org; ming@canonical.com; s...@denx.de; t...@jklm.no; Hayes, Stuart; Gowda, Srinivas G Subject: Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" a

RE: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-08-01 Thread B_B_Singh
...@linuxfoundation.org; abhay_salu...@dell.com; a...@arndb.de; k...@vrfy.org; ming@canonical.com; s...@denx.de; t...@jklm.no; Hayes, Stuart; Gowda, Srinivas G Subject: Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree At Thu, 17 Jul 2014 11:30:09

RE: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-07-10 Thread B_B_Singh
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_si...@dell.com wrote: > Resending the mail.. > > Hi All, > > As I communicated earlier the test never passed with older BI

Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

2014-07-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 08:10:01PM +0530, b_b_si...@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... >

Re: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-07-10 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 08:10:01PM +0530, b_b_si...@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

RE: patch firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader added to driver-core tree

2014-07-10 Thread B_B_Singh
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_si...@dell.com wrote: Resending the mail.. Hi All, As I communicated earlier the test never passed with older BIOS DUPs. That test? What patch

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:08 PM, wrote: > Today I have tried with 3.15 the behavior is same as before. None of these patches were in 3.15, so that should behave as before. Cheers, Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM, wrote: > I see contradiction of drivers/base/Kconfig here i.e, If I configure > DELL_RBU=y I cannot configure FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. > with this patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/327 i cannot have > FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n & DELL_RBU=y at the same time. >

RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-16 Thread B_B_Singh
; Kay Sievers; Domsch, Matt; Gowda, Srinivas G; Hayes, Stuart Subject: RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader Hi Tom, I see contradiction of drivers/base/Kconfig here i.e, If I configure DELL_RBU=y I cannot configure FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. with this patch

RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-16 Thread B_B_Singh
; Kay Sievers; Domsch, Matt; Gowda, Srinivas G; Hayes, Stuart Subject: RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader Hi Tom, I see contradiction of drivers/base/Kconfig here i.e, If I configure DELL_RBU=y I cannot configure FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. with this patch

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:13 PM, b_b_si...@dell.com wrote: I see contradiction of drivers/base/Kconfig here i.e, If I configure DELL_RBU=y I cannot configure FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. with this patch https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/327 i cannot have FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n DELL_RBU=y at the

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-16 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 4:08 PM, b_b_si...@dell.com wrote: Today I have tried with 3.15 the behavior is same as before. None of these patches were in 3.15, so that should behave as before. Cheers, Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-10 Thread B_B_Singh
o:t...@jklm.no] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 9:21 PM To: Singh, B B Cc: LKML; Ming Lei; Greg KH; Abhay Salunke; Stefan Roese; Arnd Bergmann; Kay Sievers; Domsch, Matt; Gowda, Srinivas G; Hayes, Stuart Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader On Mon, Jun 9, 20

RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-10 Thread B_B_Singh
, June 09, 2014 9:21 PM To: Singh, B B Cc: LKML; Ming Lei; Greg KH; Abhay Salunke; Stefan Roese; Arnd Bergmann; Kay Sievers; Domsch, Matt; Gowda, Srinivas G; Hayes, Stuart Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, wrote: Older

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, wrote: > Older userspace or existing DUP's doesn't work with your patch & > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. > > I will give a try with https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/327 new patch & let you > know ASAP. Thanks! Cheers, Tom -- To unsubscribe from this list:

RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread B_B_Singh
no] Sent: Monday, June 09, 2014 7:23 PM To: Singh, B B Cc: LKML; Ming Lei; Greg KH; Abhay Salunke; Stefan Roese; Arnd Bergmann; Kay Sievers; Domsch, Matt; Gowda, Srinivas G; Hayes, Stuart Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader Hi Balaji, On Mon, Jun 9, 2014

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi Balaji, On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM, wrote: > The existing BIOS-DUP’s will not work on latest kernel, which has > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n configured in Kernel config by default which > is not expected by the dell_rbu. > > > > We have made a changes in BIOS-Dell Update Package so

[PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread B_B_Singh
Hi All, The existing BIOS-DUP's will not work on latest kernel, which has CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n  configured in Kernel config by default which is not expected by the dell_rbu. We have made a changes in BIOS-Dell Update Package so that BIOS-DUP will pick the payload from the

[PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread B_B_Singh
Hi All, The existing BIOS-DUP's will not work on latest kernel, which has CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n  configured in Kernel config by default which is not expected by the dell_rbu. We have made a changes in BIOS-Dell Update Package so that BIOS-DUP will pick the payload from the

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
Hi Balaji, On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM, b_b_si...@dell.com wrote: The existing BIOS-DUP’s will not work on latest kernel, which has CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n configured in Kernel config by default which is not expected by the dell_rbu. We have made a changes in BIOS-Dell Update

RE: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread B_B_Singh
: Monday, June 09, 2014 7:23 PM To: Singh, B B Cc: LKML; Ming Lei; Greg KH; Abhay Salunke; Stefan Roese; Arnd Bergmann; Kay Sievers; Domsch, Matt; Gowda, Srinivas G; Hayes, Stuart Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader Hi Balaji, On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 3:26 PM

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 4:01 PM, b_b_si...@dell.com wrote: Older userspace or existing DUP's doesn't work with your patch CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n. I will give a try with https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/327 new patch let you know ASAP. Thanks! Cheers, Tom -- To unsubscribe from

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:20:16 +0200, > Takashi Iwai wrote: >> >> At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, >> Tom Gundersen wrote: >> > >> > Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, >> > which means that distros can't

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Takashi Iwai wrote: > At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, > Tom Gundersen wrote: >> >> Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, >> which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev >> without breaking other

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:20:16 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: > > At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, > Tom Gundersen wrote: > > > > Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, > > which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev > > without breaking

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: > > Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, > which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev > without breaking other users (though some have). > > Ideally we would remove/disable

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev without breaking other users (though some have). Ideally we would remove/disable the

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:20:16 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev without breaking other

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev without breaking other

Re: [PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 4:31 PM, Takashi Iwai ti...@suse.de wrote: At Wed, 04 Jun 2014 16:20:16 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: At Mon, 2 Jun 2014 20:24:34 +0200, Tom Gundersen wrote: Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't

[PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-02 Thread Tom Gundersen
Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev without breaking other users (though some have). Ideally we would remove/disable the udev firmware helper in both the kernel and in udev, but if we were

[PATCH] firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader

2014-06-02 Thread Tom Gundersen
Currently (at least) the dell-rbu driver selects FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER, which means that distros can't really stop loading firmware through udev without breaking other users (though some have). Ideally we would remove/disable the udev firmware helper in both the kernel and in udev, but if we were