From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753706AbaHETWM (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:22:12 -0400 Received: from mail-yh0-f41.google.com ([209.85.213.41]:64926 "EHLO mail-yh0-f41.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753377AbaHETWL (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Aug 2014 15:22:11 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <14048583172593@kroah.com> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBE9@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBBF8@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBC06@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FD6FBDAB@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FE07C773@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FE07CC64@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> <8B2F6FFD0BD1E448853114367400A37306FE311D74@BLRX7MCDC203.AMER.DELL.COM> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 13:22:10 -0600 Message-ID: Subject: Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree From: Shuah Khan To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Jean-Michel Hautbois , B_B_Singh@dell.com, Greg KH , Abhay_Salunke@dell.com, Arnd Bergmann , kay@vrfy.org, ming.lei@canonical.com, Stefan Roese , teg@jklm.no, Stuart_Hayes@dell.com, Srinivas_G_Gowda@dell.com, linux-kernel Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Takashi Iwai 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