On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 11:07 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez <mcg...@do-not-panic.com> wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcg...@suse.com> > > Now that the udev firmware loader is optional request_firmware() > will not provide any information on the kernel ring buffer if > direct firmware loading failed and udev firmware loading is disabled. > If no information is needed request_firmware_direct() should be used > for optional firmware, at which point drivers can take on the onus > over informing of any failures, if udev firmware loading is disabled > though we should at the very least provide some sort of information > as when the udev loader was enabled by default back in the days. > > With this change with a simple firmware load test module [0]: > > Example output without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK > > platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed > with error -2 > > Example with FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK > > platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed with error -2 > platform fake-dev.0: Falling back to user helper > > Without this change without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK we > get no output logged upon failure. > > Cc: Tom Gundersen <t...@jklm.no> > Cc: Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> > Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salu...@dell.com> > Cc: Stefan Roese <s...@denx.de> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> > Cc: Kay Sievers <k...@vrfy.org> > Cc: Takashi Iwai <ti...@suse.de> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcg...@suse.com>
Looks fine, also it is a cleanup. Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> Thanks, -- Ming Lei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
