[PATCH net v2 2/2] octeontx2-af: suppress kpu profile loading warning

From: nshettyj

Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 00:07:02 EST


From: Harman Kalra <hkalra@xxxxxxxxxxx>

There are three ways in which a KPU profile can be loaded
(in high to low priority order):
1. profile image integrated in kernel image
2. firmware database method
3. default profile

In most cases the profile is loaded using the 2nd method, which
causes a spurious warning from the Linux firmware subsystem (method 1)
due to the absence of firmware in the kernel image.

Replace request_firmware_direct() with firmware_request_nowarn() to
suppress such warnings when no image is integrated into the kernel image.

Fixes: c0c9ac88156a ("octeontx2-af: npc: Support for custom KPU profile from filesystem")
Signed-off-by: Harman Kalra <hkalra@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nitin Shetty J <nshettyj@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c
index c7bc0b3a29b9..007d3f22b0c9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/octeontx2/af/rvu_npc.c
@@ -2246,7 +2246,7 @@ static int npc_load_kpu_profile_from_fs(struct rvu *rvu)

strcat(path, kpu_profile);

- if (request_firmware_direct(&fw, path, rvu->dev))
+ if (firmware_request_nowarn(&fw, path, rvu->dev))
return -ENOENT;

dev_info(rvu->dev, "Loading KPU profile from filesystem: %s\n",
--
2.48.1