Re: Building dell_rbu module

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On 08/13/2015 02:44 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> I will have to dig into the history to remember the exact details, but
> the reason this driver is disabled is because it is one of the two or
> three drivers left in the kernel that cannot use the direct firmware
> loading mechanism.  It requires the older userspace helper callout,
> and udev stopped supporting that quite some time ago.  When it is
> enabled and is loaded in the kernel, I believe we get the nasty 60
> second hang/timeout issue still.
> 
> I'll try and review it in more detail again.

For what it's worth, I tossed together a COPR build of 4.1.6 for enabling dell_rbu:

  https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mhayden/kernel-dellrbu/build/109667/

I installed it on an Optiplex 3020 and I was able to update the BIOS without any problems.

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Major Hayden
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