On Tue, 2017-11-21 at 12:42 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote: > Luca Coelho <luca@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > [ 10.630285] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load > > > iwlwifi-8265-34.ucode (-2) > > > [ 10.630331] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for > > > iwlwifi-8265-34.ucode failed with error -2 > > > [ 10.630454] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load > > > iwlwifi-8265-33.ucode (-2) > > > [ 10.630479] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for > > > iwlwifi-8265-33.ucode failed with error -2 > > > [ 10.630486] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load > > > iwlwifi-8265-32.ucode (-2) > > > [ 10.630510] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for > > > iwlwifi-8265-32.ucode failed with error -2 > > > [ 10.636423] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: firmware: direct-loading > > > firmware > > > iwlwifi-8265-31.ucode > > > [ 10.637463] iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version > > > 31.532993.0 op_mode iwlmvm > > > > This is an unfortunate side-effect of the way firmwares are > > loaded. > > There is currently no way to prevent these error messages by making > > some files optional... But you can ignore them. Or, even better, > > upgrade your firmware to the latest version the driver supports. :) > > Or even better that we improve request_firmware()&co to make it > possible > not to print an error message :) The last time we discussed this, Luis was working on changes to the firmware subsystem APIs, but I stopped following and have no idea what happened with those patches... -- Cheers, Luca.