Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-02-06 Thread Jean Delvare
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:44:13 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:16:42PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > This is 2.6.24, CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED=y: > > > > # ls -l /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-0 > > total 0 > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root0 f?v 5 18:07 device -> > > ../../../devices/pci

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-02-05 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 09:16:42PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:45:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > > I'm a bit confused. It seems to me that the "class devices" are named > > > differently in recent kernels. The i2

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-02-05 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:45:47 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:15:22PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > I'm a bit confused. It seems to me that the "class devices" are named > > differently in recent kernels. The i2c-dev class devices were originally > > showing as i2c-%d in their par

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-02-05 Thread Jean Delvare
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 09:58:35 -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:02:38PM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:09:25 -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:04:17PM +0100, Sytse Wielinga wrote: > > > > I've created th

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-02-03 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Michael, On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:09:25 -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: > On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:04:17PM +0100, Sytse Wielinga wrote: > > I've created the simple patch below. I have no idea if it actually works, > > though, as I don't appear to have any hardware for which a linux driver > > sup

Re: 2.6.24 breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines

2008-01-28 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 12:32:44AM -0600, Michael E Brown wrote: > BIOS updates are broken on all Dell systems due to Commit > 109f0e93b6b728f03c1eb4af02bc25d71b646c59, which is now in 2.6.24. > > static inline void fw_setup_device_id(struct device *f_dev, struct > device *dev) > { > - /