On Tue, Jul 02, 2013 at 07:27:49PM +0000, Linux Kernel wrote:
> Gitweb:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/;a=commit;h=d05c39ea67f5786a549ac9d672d2951992b658c6
> Commit: d05c39ea67f5786a549ac9d672d2951992b658c6
> Parent: a3b2c8c7aa1ca860edcf0b0afa371d9eb2269c3c
> Author: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
> AuthorDate: Wed May 22 18:28:37 2013 +0200
> Committer: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> CommitDate: Mon Jun 3 13:57:29 2013 -0700
>
> dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly
>
> The usermode helper is mandatory for this driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
> drivers/firmware/Kconfig | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> index 9387630..0747872 100644
> --- a/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/firmware/Kconfig
> @@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ config DELL_RBU
> tristate "BIOS update support for DELL systems via sysfs"
> depends on X86
> select FW_LOADER
> + select FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER
> help
> Say m if you want to have the option of updating the BIOS for your
> DELL system. Note you need a Dell OpenManage or Dell Update package
> (DUP)
This is pretty crappy. Now every distro kernel has to have that enabled,
which screws up for eg, the x86 microcode driver. (It takes 1 minute per cpu
when this is enabled).
Dave
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