Re: Class device namespaces

[Doug Warzecha]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:46:57PM +0200, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 19:39, Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
> > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
> 
> These pathes only ever exist for a fraction of a second, during a
> kernel initiated firmware request. This request is usually only
> handled by the udev firmware loader script, and not interesting for
> anything else. Are you replacing the udev firmware script here? Are
> you sure you do something else here?

A Dell library writes data to those paths when a Dell BIOS Update Package is run and requests the BIOS image to be loaded into memory.

Doug

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