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[PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixes
authorAbhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 02:28:04 +0000 (19:28 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sat, 17 Sep 2005 18:50:02 +0000 (11:50 -0700)
commite61c0e336f3931842f09e6709d76146bfd81184e
treec5f1083fcf162f80080874b3934bcd7a48893f9f
parent3013449243adc3421b507696e5d247a3d292ee0c
[PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixes

BUG fixes:

  The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been
  fixed in this patch.

  The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid
  entry in image_type.  The fix is to only print a warning message and not
  the buffer.

Usability enhancements:

  It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu
  entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following

echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading

  This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the
  only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver.

  This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to
  image_type.

This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/dell_rbu.txt
drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c