linux-kernel - Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

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Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 07:54:17 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	B_B_Singh@...L.com
Cc:	tiwai@...e.de, Abhay_Salunke@...l.com, arnd@...db.de, kay@...y.org,
	ming.lei@...onical.com, sr@...x.de, teg@...m.no,
	Stuart_Hayes@...l.com, Srinivas_G_Gowda@...l.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
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, B_B_Singh@...L.com 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
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