Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Aug 2014 11:24:58 +0200 | From | Takashi Iwai <> | Subject | Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree |
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At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan <shuahkhan@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> 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.
> 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?
Takashi
> [ 0.308078] __fw_free_buf: fw-lattice-ecp3.bit buf=bd81a480 data= > (null) size=0 > [ 0.308094] lattice-ecp3 spi2.3: Cannot load firmware, aborting > > If you want specific messages, please tell me. > > Thanks, > JM >
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