linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 12/13] Documentation: remove stale firmware API reference

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Message-ID: <20180509121209.1e332f63@vento.lan>
Date:   Wed, 9 May 2018 12:12:09 -0300
From:   Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>
To:     "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 12/13] Documentation: remove stale firmware API
 reference

Em Tue,  8 May 2018 11:12:46 -0700
"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org> escreveu:

> It refers to a pending patch, but this was merged eons ago.

Didn't know that such patch was already merged. Great!

Regards,
Mauro

> 
> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> ---
>  Documentation/dell_rbu.txt | 3 ---
>  1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
> index 0fdb6aa2704c..077fdc29a0d0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
> @@ -121,9 +121,6 @@ read back the image downloaded.
>  
>  .. note::
>  
> -   This driver requires a patch for firmware_class.c which has the modified
> -   request_firmware_nowait function.
> -

>     Also after updating the BIOS image a user mode application needs to execute
>     code which sends the BIOS update request to the BIOS. So on the next reboot
>     the BIOS knows about the new image downloaded and it updates itself.

You should likely remove the "Also" here.

With that,

Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@...nel.org>

Regards,
Mauro