On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 15:26:40 CDT, Abhay Salunke said: > This patch adds a new function to firmware_calss.c request_firmware_nowait_nohotplug . > The dell_rbu driver uses this call to create entries in /sys/class/firmware. > > Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <[email protected]> > > Thanks > Abhay > diff -uprN linux-2.6.11.11.orig/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt linux-2.6.11.11.new/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt > +This driver enables userspace applications to update the BIOS on Dell servers > +(starting from servers sold since 1999), desktops and notebooks (starting > +from those sold in 2005). I may be blind, but I'm not seeing where this code makes a check - what happens if I try to run this on my 3-year-old Latitude laptop?
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