Re: [patch 2.6.12-rc3] dell_rbu: Resubmitting patch for new DellBIOS update driver

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On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 03:22:45PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > I was assuming that this would wait forever, and is why I pointed you in
> > > > this direction.  Sorry about the confusion here.
> > > >
> > > I guess the earlier method of request_firmware would work out as is with
> > > the only disadvantage of the user having to depend on hotplug mechanism
> > > and echoing firmware name.
> > > Let me know if that is acceptable till we find a solution to wait for
> > > ever without using hotplug stuff.
> > 
> > Why not fix the firmware_class.c code now?  :)
> > 
> I can sure submit a patch later but for now please accept it in the
> tree. 

Heh, um, no.

> Due to scheduling issues it may not be possible for me to fix this now.

Please realize that we do not know, nor care about your scheduling
issues :)

For more details on "things you should never say on the Linux kernel
mailing list", see Randy Dunlap's very good presentation on kernel
development at:
	http://www.madrone.org/mentor/linux-mentoring.pdf

thanks,

greg k-h
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