On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:37PM +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: >> Firmware files are versioned to prevent older >> driver instances to load unsupported firmware >> blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic >> which attempts to load several firmware files. >> >> This however produced a lot of unnecessary >> warnings sometimes confusing users and leading >> them to rename firmware files making things even >> more confusing. > > This happens on kernels configured with > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK and cause not only ugly warnings, > but also 60 seconds delay before loading next firmware version. > For some reason RHEL kernel needs above config option, so this > patch is very welcome from my perspective. > Sorry for my ignorance but how does the firmware loading work if not with udev's help? As you can imagine, iwlwifi is suffering from the same problem and I would be interested in applying the same change, but I'd love to understand a bit more :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
