Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757891AbZD1WHz (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:07:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754276AbZD1WHq (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:07:46 -0400 Received: from ausxippc101.us.dell.com ([143.166.85.207]:5061 "EHLO ausxippc101.us.dell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753943AbZD1WHp (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:07:45 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 570 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:07:45 EDT X-Loopcount0: from 10.35.10.31 Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:58:44 -0500 From: Doug Warzecha To: Kay Sievers Cc: Jean Delvare , Michael Brown , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Matt Domsch Subject: Re: Class device namespaces Message-ID: <20090428215844.GA1396@sysman-doug.us.dell.com> References: <20090330104952.26f03c13@hyperion.delvare> <20090426085401.3788fc9c@hyperion.delvare> <20090427132041.GA18391@sc1430.michaels-house.net> <20090427172710.5a0c7f48@hyperion.delvare> <437908170904271023k3eefd4c1ma0cacdb78ad7acd7@mail.gmail.com> <20090428101020.0e4c2b0c@hyperion.delvare> <20090428173929.GA5006@sysman-doug.us.dell.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 929 Lines: 21 On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:46:57PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 19:39, Doug Warzecha wrote: > > > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading > > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data > > These pathes only ever exist for a fraction of a second, during a > kernel initiated firmware request. This request is usually only > handled by the udev firmware loader script, and not interesting for > anything else. Are you replacing the udev firmware script here? Are > you sure you do something else here? A Dell library writes data to those paths when a Dell BIOS Update Package is run and requests the BIOS image to be loaded into memory. Doug -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/