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

From: Takashi Iwai
Date: Wed Aug 06 2014 - 06:22:00 EST


At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200,
Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote:
>
> 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 ;-).

I see.

> >> 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

Then you'd better bisect...
Or, at least, put a debug code to see which file is opened in the loop
in fw_get_filesystem_firmware().


Takashi
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