On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Adam Williamson wrote:
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 00:17 -0600, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:
Installing : kernel-2.6.31.5-115.fc12.x86_64
W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
This laptop may be a horse (quad cores), but it's not at all in the same
league as workstations/servers needing fibre channel cards to access SAN
storage. Why does this kernel seem to *expect* these files to be there,
then raise warnings when it doesn't find them? It seems to me the
overhelming majority of machines on which this kernel might be installed
would never have a need for a fiber channel card.
It's not the kernel warning, AIUI, it's dracut. It just prints a warning
for _any_ module in the initrd it's building that looks like it needs
firmware which is not present. And because we build universal initrds by
default with dracut, these modules go in even if they're not needed on
your hardware.
That's my understanding of the issue, anyway.
Exactly. I was asking about this few weeks ago. When the kernel-firmware
package lags behind the kernel update, then dracut prints this warning. Me
and Dave Jones voted for those warning to go under debug option only (see
thread "dracut speed and kernel version"). Seems it is either in the
queue, forgoten or Harald decided to not put them under debug.
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Adam Williamson
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