Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN?

[RafaÅ MiÅecki]

On 12 December 2016 at 09:12, Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 16:54 +0100, RafaÅ MiÅecki 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/

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RafaÅ