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Re: Errors when firmware is missing

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On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 17:34 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:

> Drivers should be returning -ENOENT (the error from request_firmware()
> when the firmware isn't found) when userspace sets IFF_UP on the device,
> so that userspace has the faintest hope of intelligently informing the
> user.

Makes sense to me. Since it knows which driver is used it could even
tell the user where to get firmware :P

johannes

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