Thread (5 messages) 5 messages, 4 authors, 2017-08-02

Re: [PATCH V5 2/2] brcmfmac: don't warn user about NVRAM if fallback to the platform one succeeds

From: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
Date: 2017-08-01 21:20:39
Also in: lkml, netdev

On 31-07-17 17:09, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>

Failing to load NVRAM *file* isn't critical if we manage to get platform
NVRAM in the fallback path. It means warnings like:
[   10.801506] brcmfmac 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt failed with error -2
are unnecessary & disturbing for people with *platform* NVRAM as they
are not expected to have NVRAM file. This is a very common case for
Broadcom home routers.

Instead of printing warning immediately within the firmware subsystem
let's try our fallback code first. If that fails as well, then it's a
right moment to print an error.

This should reduce amount of false reports from users seeing this
warning while having wireless working perfectly fine with the platform
NVRAM.
Reviewed-by: Arend van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@milecki.pl>
---
V2: Update commit message as it wasn't clear enough (thanks Andy) & add extra
    messages to the firmware.c.
V3: Set FW_OPT_UEVENT to don't change behavior
V4: Switch to the new request_firmware_async syntax
V5: Rebase, update commit message, resend after drvdata discussion
---
 .../wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c    | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
index d231042f19d6..524442b3870f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
@@ -462,8 +462,14 @@ static void brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done(const struct firmware *fw, void *ctx)
 		raw_nvram = false;
 	} else {
 		data = bcm47xx_nvram_get_contents(&data_len);
-		if (!data && !(fwctx->flags & BRCMF_FW_REQ_NV_OPTIONAL))
-			goto fail;
+		if (!data) {
+			brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Failed to get platform NVRAM\n");
Better make this INFO level instead of TRACE. The intent of TRACE level
is for entry/exit points in functions.

Regards,
Arend
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