On Sat, Jul 06, 2013 at 06:14:01PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote: > 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).
I'll let you and Takashi battle this one out, for some reason I thought he added it _because_ a distro kernel needed it... Takashi? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
