Re: Could we have request_firmware_nowait with FW_OPT_NO_WARN?

Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki [off-list ref] writes:

On 12 December 2016 at 09:12, Johannes Berg [off-list ref] w=

rote:

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On Sat, 2016-12-10 at 16:54 +0100, Rafa=C5=82 Mi=C5=82ecki wrote:

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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

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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!

We have the same problem also on ath10k :) And it's confusing users a
lot, especially as we also load calibration file and other files. So
yes, something like this is very much needed.

But in ath10k we use request_firmware() instead
request_firmware_nowait(). So I would appreciate if you could add the
support to both variants.

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Kalle Valo