linux/drivers/base
Luis R. Rodriguez c868edf42b firmware loader: inform direct failure when udev loader is disabled
Now that the udev firmware loader is optional request_firmware()
will not provide any information on the kernel ring buffer if
direct firmware loading failed and udev firmware loading is disabled.
If no information is needed request_firmware_direct() should be used
for optional firmware, at which point drivers can take on the onus
over informing of any failures, if udev firmware loading is disabled
though we should at the very least provide some sort of information
as when the udev loader was enabled by default back in the days.

With this change with a simple firmware load test module [0]:

Example output without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK

platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed
with error -2

Example with FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK

platform fake-dev.0: Direct firmware load for fake.bin failed with error -2
platform fake-dev.0: Falling back to user helper

Without this change without FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK we
get no output logged upon failure.

Cc: Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2014-07-08 15:28:16 -07:00
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power Merge branch 'pm-sleep' 2014-06-12 13:43:08 +02:00
regmap Merge remote-tracking branch 'regmap/topic/smbus' into regmap-next 2014-06-02 17:07:42 +01:00
attribute_container.c drivers/base: delete non-required instances of include <linux/init.h> 2014-02-14 14:31:37 -08:00
base.h driver core: Move driver_data back to struct device 2014-05-27 12:37:18 -07:00
bus.c Merge branch 'master' into for-next 2014-02-20 14:54:28 +01:00
class.c sysfs: make attr namespace interface less convoluted 2013-09-26 14:50:01 -07:00
component.c component: fix bug with legacy API 2014-07-04 18:05:05 +01:00
container.c ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way 2013-12-29 15:25:48 +01:00
core.c sysfs, driver-core: remove unused {sysfs|device}_schedule_callback_owner() 2014-04-16 11:56:33 -07:00
cpu.c x86: align x86 arch with generic CPU modalias handling 2014-02-18 12:45:38 -08:00
dd.c driver core: Inline dev_set/get_drvdata 2014-05-27 13:46:59 -07:00
devres.c devres: Add devm_get_free_pages API 2014-05-24 02:19:25 +09:00
devtmpfs.c devtmpfs: Calling delete_path() only when necessary 2013-12-19 10:10:32 -08:00
dma-coherent.c DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
dma-contiguous.c DMA, CMA: fix possible memory leak 2014-06-23 16:47:44 -07:00
dma-mapping.c DMA-API: Change dma_declare_coherent_memory() CPU address to phys_addr_t 2014-05-20 16:55:23 -06:00
driver.c driver core: add #include <linux/sysfs.h> to core files. 2013-08-27 10:24:15 -07:00
firmware_class.c firmware loader: inform direct failure when udev loader is disabled 2014-07-08 15:28:16 -07:00
firmware.c
hypervisor.c drivers/base: Add export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE as required. 2011-10-31 19:31:38 -04:00
init.c ACPI / hotplug / driver core: Handle containers in a special way 2013-12-29 15:25:48 +01:00
isa.c
Kconfig firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader 2014-07-08 15:24:39 -07:00
Makefile dma-buf: move to drivers/dma-buf 2014-07-08 10:51:06 -07:00
map.c
memory.c memory-hotplug: update documentation to hide information about SECTIONS and remove end_phys_index 2014-06-04 16:53:58 -07:00
module.c
node.c numa: fix NULL pointer access and memory leak in unregister_one_node() 2014-03-08 22:08:29 -08:00
pinctrl.c drivers: pinctrl sleep and idle states in the core 2013-06-16 11:56:52 +02:00
platform.c of/irq: do irq resolution in platform_get_irq_byname() 2014-05-23 11:40:25 +09:00
soc.c mode_t whack-a-mole: ->is_visible() returns umode_t... 2012-05-29 23:28:42 -04:00
syscore.c PM / sleep: trace events for suspend/resume 2014-06-07 00:18:07 +02:00
topology.c topology: Fix compilation warning when not in SMP 2014-04-16 14:13:26 -07:00
transport_class.c drivers/base: transport_class explicitly requires EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:31:15 -04:00