Re: [PATCH linux-next] soc: ti: use request_firmware_direct() as acc firmware is optional

From: Murali Karicheri
Date: Mon Oct 19 2015 - 13:02:58 EST


On 10/19/2015 11:29 AM, santosh shilimkar wrote:
On 10/19/2015 8:28 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
On 10/16/2015 10:00 AM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
On 10/15/2015 02:59 PM, Murali Karicheri wrote:
When firmware image for PDSP firmware is absent in the file system
the kernel boot with ramfs/nfs is stuck for 60 seconds being the
the default timeout. request_firmware_direct() is to take care of
such optional firmware loading and hence replace the call in the
driver with this API.

Signed-off-by: Murali Karicheri <m-karicheri2@xxxxxx>
---
drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
b/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
index f3a0b6a..89789e2 100644
--- a/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
+++ b/drivers/soc/ti/knav_qmss_queue.c
@@ -1519,9 +1519,9 @@ static int knav_queue_load_pdsp(struct
knav_device *kdev,

for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(knav_acc_firmwares); i++) {
if (knav_acc_firmwares[i]) {
- ret = request_firmware(&fw,
- knav_acc_firmwares[i],
- kdev->dev);
+ ret = request_firmware_direct(&fw,
+ knav_acc_firmwares[i],
+ kdev->dev);
if (!ret) {
found = true;
break;

Santosh,

If this looks good, could you please send this to linux-next? Without
this, Linux boot will see a pause for about 60 seconds if qmss acc
firmware is not present in the file system. So this is a must for next.

Santosh,

A Gentle ping....

Yes I have seen it but it has to wait now. I plan to send that as a fix
as part of 4.4-rcx fixes.
Santosh,

Not sure what the reason is. Can't this be sent to linux-next as should be the case if something is broken on that branch AFAIK. For us, this would help to merge to ti kernel based on 4.1.y if this is already part of an upstream branch. Otherwise, I will have to wait merge of the qmss accumulator series to ti kernel until this one is merged to upstream which will block the release. So I prefer you send this one to linux-next sooner than late.

Thanks and regards,

Murali




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