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SubjectRe: [PATCH] firmware: Be a bit more verbose about direct firmware loading failure
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Neil Horman wrote:
> Both of these execptions should be rare, and are something the administrator
> will want to know about, so as not to confuse the real error with the mystery
> -ENOENT you would get if you fell back to the user mode helepr and it wansn't
> configured on in the running kernel.

Except, of course, for Intel processor microcode updates, which are going to
cause ENOENT on a large number of systems.

This will generate a large number of questions by users on the distro MLs.

However, IMHO this is *not* a reason to refuse this patch series. If
anything, at least for Debian I will use it as an opportunity to educate
people about the existence of microcode update packages in "non-free".

--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh


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