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:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2014 8:24 PM To: Singh, B B Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; Hayes, Stuart; Gowda, Srinivas G; [email protected] 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, [email protected] 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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
