Bug 1109970

Summary:	Missing dell_rbu driver
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Simon Lewis <simon.lewis>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	unspecified
Version:	20	CC:	gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab, simon.lewis
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Description Simon Lewis 2014-06-16 19:03:25 UTC

Description of problem:

Unable to update bios on dell laptop using smbios utils as dell_rbu driver (code for which is part of the kernel sources) is not supplied with kernel


How reproducible:

always


Steps to Reproduce:

# modprobe dell_rbu


Actual results:

dell_rbu not found

Comment 1 Simon Lewis 2014-07-06 10:53:34 UTC

??

Comment 2 Josh Boyer 2014-07-07 13:49:04 UTC

We've disabled this driver because it's incompatible with the way udev and the kernel are configured to load firmware in Fedora.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 997149 ***