linux-kernel - Re: dell rbu driver and FW_LOADER_USER

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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2014 12:40:21 -0500
From:	Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@...l.com>
To:	Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
CC:	Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@...l.com>,
	Cristian Rodríguez 
	<crrodriguez@...nsuse.org>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	systemd Mailing List <systemd-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	"Hayes, Stuart" <Stuart_Hayes@...l.com>,
	"Singh, B B" <B_B_Singh@...L.com>
Subject: Re: dell rbu driver and FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER


On 08/26/2014 12:20 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 7:14 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez<mcgrof@...e.com>  wrote:
> The rework is now upstream, but not yet released [1].
>
> The dell driver dose not use rely on udev in userspace, nor the
> /lib/firmware path. It has its own userspace component, which just
> happens to reuse some of the infrastructure the udev firmware helper
> used to use. This has now been split up, and as of 3.17 the firmware
> loader can safely be removed from udev.
>
> [1]:<http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=5a1379e8748a5cfa3eb068f812d61bde849ef76c>
Loop in Stuart Hayes and BB Singh.  RBU support is primarily used/supported on poweredge today, and they should be able to help comment and sort this out.
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