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
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
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From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
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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