linux-toradex.git/Documentation/dell_rbu.txt, branch v3.12.5

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

trivial: Documentation/dell_rbu.txt: fix typos

2009-06-12T16:01:50+00:00

Remove a period from end of command-line and fix misplaced comma.

Signed-off-by: Masanori Kobayasi 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

trivial: fix an -> a typos in documentation and comments

2009-01-06T10:28:07+00:00

It is always "an" if there is a vowel _spoken_ (not written).
So it is:
"an hour" (spoken vowel)
but
"a uniform" (spoken 'j')

Signed-off-by: Frederik Schwarzer 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'

2006-10-03T20:52:05+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'

2006-10-03T20:50:39+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'F'-'G'

2006-10-03T20:49:15+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix typos in Documentation/: 'B'-'C'

2006-10-03T20:46:31+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some
words starting with the letters 'B'-'C'.  There are also a few grammar fixes
thrown in for Randy. ;)

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Fix some typos in Documentation/: 'A'

2006-10-03T20:45:33+00:00

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts.
This patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'A'.

Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Alan Cox 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

[PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanism

2005-10-11T16:46:53+00:00

In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the
user app dump every individual packet in to the driver.

This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the
/sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear
again.  Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump
another packet.  This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of
large number of packets.  I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will
change the way we do packet updates;

In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already
packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file.

This driver also creates a new entry in
/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet
size here before downloading the packet file.

The user should do the following:

 create one single file which has all the packets stacked together.
 echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size.
 echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
 cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
 echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading

The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data
and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory.

This makes packet update process very efficient and fast.  As all the packet
update happens in one single operation.  The user can still read back the
downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixes

2005-09-17T18:50:02+00:00

BUG fixes:

  The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been
  fixed in this patch.

  The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid
  entry in image_type.  The fix is to only print a warning message and not
  the buffer.

Usability enhancements:

  It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu
  entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following

	echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
	echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading

  This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the
  only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver.

  This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to
  image_type.

This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds