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Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN?

From Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN?
Date 2016-12-12 09:20 +0100
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On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 16:54 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In brcmfmac we use request_firmware_nowait and if fetching firmware
> with NVRAM variables fails then we try to fallback to the platform
> one (see brcmf_fw_request_code_done & brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done).
> 
> Some problem for us is that on devices with platform NVRAM we get
> this error:
> Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt failed with error -2

This also happens with iwlwifi, because it requests multiple firmware
versions starting at the most recent supported one (which is often not
released at the same time).

So yeah, this would be really useful - why don't you just make a patch
with some kind of flags, whether it's FW_OPT_* or new flags?

johannes

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Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2016-12-10 17:00 +0100
  Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> - 2016-12-12 09:20 +0100
    Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 09:40 +0100
      Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com> - 2016-12-12 10:30 +0100
        Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 11:00 +0100
          Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 15:10 +0100
            Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> - 2016-12-12 15:20 +0100
      Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> - 2016-12-12 12:50 +0100
  Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@kernel.org> - 2016-12-12 15:20 +0100

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