Firmware flashing on Dell systems

[Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com]

Tim,

In updating the Dell firmware related packages, it was brought to my
attention that kernel 2.6.24 broke firmware flashing routines on Dell
machines.  Michael Brown submitted a patch that was accepted for
2.6.24.1 for fixing it.

Can you pull that patch to apply to the Ubuntu kernels since switching
to 2.6.24.1 will be out of the question?

Here's the commit info from ChangeLog-2.6.24.1:
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commit 71591e87172bda0d1bf239dd4c7f9aef57a69c28
Author: Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown at dell.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 29 15:35:01 2008 -0600

    Driver core: Revert "Fix Firmware class name collision"
    
    patch 7d640c4a5b36c4733460065db1554da924044511 in mainline.
    
    This reverts commit 109f0e93b6b728f03c1eb4af02bc25d71b646c59.
    
    The original patch breaks BIOS updates on all Dell machines. The
path to
    the firmware file for the dell_rbu driver changes, which breaks all
of
    the userspace tools which rely on it.
    
    Note that this patch re-introduces a problem with i2c name collision
    that was previously fixed by this patch.
    
    Signed-off-by: Michael E Brown <michael_e_brown at dell.com>
    Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de>
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Thanks,
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Mario Limonciello
Dell | Linux Engineering
Desk : (512) 723-0582
mario_limonciello at dell.com



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