From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755703AbaHFKup (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 06:50:45 -0400 Received: from mail-oi0-f48.google.com ([209.85.218.48]:39538 "EHLO mail-oi0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755551AbaHFKuo (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Aug 2014 06:50:44 -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> From: Jean-Michel Hautbois Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 12:50:28 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: patch "firmware loader: allow disabling of udev as firmware loader" added to driver-core tree To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Shuah Khan , B_B_Singh@dell.com, Greg KH , Arnd Bergmann , Kay Sievers , Ming Lei , Stefan Roese , Tom Gundersen , 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 2014-08-06 12:21 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:44:14 +0200, > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> 2014-08-06 11:24 GMT+02:00 Takashi Iwai : >> > At Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:10:27 +0200, >> > Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: >> >> >> >> 2014-08-05 21:22 GMT+02:00 Shuah Khan : >> >> > 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 >> >> >> >> 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(). Well, when this function is called, my rootfs is not yet mounted (I have a dedicated partition on a SDCard)... So I probably missed a step in order to get /lib/firmware before / is mounted... ? JM