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Re: [PATCH 6/9] firmware: print firmware name on fallback path

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On 2018-05-03 07:42 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 04:12:02PM -0400, Andres Rodriguez wrote:
Previously, one could assume the firmware name from the preceding
message: "Direct firmware load for {name} failed with error %d".

However, with the new firmware_request_nowarn() entrypoint, the message
outlined above will not always be printed.

I though the whole point was to not print an error message. What if
we want later to disable this error message? This would prove a bit
pointless.

Let's discuss the exact semantics desired here. Why would only the
fallback be desirable here?

Andres, Kalle?

After we address this I'll address resubmitting this lat patch
along with the last one. For now I'll skip it.

You are correct. I initially thought it would be useful to know that the usermode fallback was being triggered. And for that message to be useful we would need a fw name.

But now that you point it out, this behaviour is inconsistent with the _nowarn() definition. We shouldn't have a message in the first place.

So it might be better to instead have:

if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_NO_WARN) )
    dev_warn(device, "Falling back to user helper\n");

No need to add the firmware name, cause we either:
    a) FW_OPT_NO_WARN is set and no messages are printed, or
    b) FW_OPT_NO_WARN is not set and we get both messages.

Yay, nay?

Regards,
Andres


   Luis

Therefore, we add the firmware name to the fallback path spew in order
to associate it with the appropriate request.

Signed-off-by: Andres Rodriguez <andresx7@xxxxxxxxx>
---
  drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
index e75928458489..1a47ddc70c31 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
@@ -669,6 +669,6 @@ int fw_sysfs_fallback(struct firmware *fw, const char *name,
  	if (!fw_run_sysfs_fallback(opt_flags))
  		return ret;
- dev_warn(device, "Falling back to user helper\n");
+	dev_warn(device, "Falling back to user helper for %s\n", name);
  	return fw_load_from_user_helper(fw, name, device, opt_flags);
  }
--
2.14.1






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