Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree

[Jean-Michel Hautbois]

2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>:
> At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200,
> Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
>>
>> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> Yes, it worked, if the firmware was in the /lib/firmware directory.
>> >>
>> >
>> > ok it works when the firmware is in /lib/firmware. It sounds to me the
>> > reason load fails when the firmware is under /sys/class/firmware is
>> > fw_load_from_user_helper() returns -ENOENT when
>> > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is disabled.
>> >
>> > It would be nice to see the entire dmesg with debug enabled though.
>> >
>> > -- Shuah
>>
>> It does not work with the 3.16 kernel even when firmware is in
>> /lib/firmware, it worked before this patch is applied.
>
> Hm?  3.16 doesn't contain my patch yet.  It's merged for 3.17-rc1.

Oh, you are right of course, I am on upstream kernel and I have your
patch. I don't mean your match is causing the issue though ;-).

>> Here is what I got in my dmesg :
>> [    0.307856] __allocate_fw_buf: fw-lattice-ecp3.bit buf=bd81a480
>> [    0.308029] lattice-ecp3 spi2.3: Direct firmware load for
>> lattice-ecp3.bit failed with error -2
>
> It's -ENOENT.  Are you sure that you really have
>  /lib/firmware/lattice-ecp3.bit file?

Yes :
ls -al /lib/firmware/lattice-ecp3.bit
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 897753 Aug  5 15:04 /lib/firmware/lattice-ecp3.bit

Thanks,
JM
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