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| From | Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.kernel |
| Subject | Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN? |
| Date | 2016-12-12 09:40 +0100 |
| Message-ID | <sNujn-22B-9@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <sMSea-47F-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <sNu02-1Wi-19@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On 12 December 2016 at 09:12, Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> wrote: > On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 16:54 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: >> 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). Good to know it may help others as well! > 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? OK! If noone will come with any special comments/ideas soon, I'll propose a patch for using some flags. FWIW, meanwhile I submitted [PATCH V2] firmware: simplify defining and handling FW_OPT_FALLBACK https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9469875/ -- Rafał
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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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