The patch titled Char: moxa, add firmware loading fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is char-moxa-add-firmware-loading-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Char: moxa, add firmware loading fix From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> Be more verbose on fw load fail as noted by Oyvind. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Oyvind Aabling <Oyvind.Aabling@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/moxa.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/char/moxa.c~char-moxa-add-firmware-loading-fix drivers/char/moxa.c --- a/drivers/char/moxa.c~char-moxa-add-firmware-loading-fix +++ a/drivers/char/moxa.c @@ -846,7 +846,10 @@ static int moxa_init_board(struct moxa_b ret = request_firmware(&fw, file, dev); if (ret) { - printk(KERN_ERR "request_firmware failed\n"); + printk(KERN_ERR "MOXA: request_firmware failed. Make sure " + "you've placed '%s' file into your firmware " + "loader directory (e.g. /lib/firmware)\n", + file); goto err_free; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx are git-drm.patch drm-i915-fix-oops-after-killing-x.patch wdev-ath5k-typecheck-on-nondebug.patch misc-phantom-add-compat-ioctl.patch misc-phantom-add-compat-ioctl-checkpatch-fixes.patch misc-phantom-fix-poll.patch mxser-prepare-for-bkl-pushdown.patch tty-bkl-pushdown-fix.patch tty-bkl-pushdown-fix1.patch char-moxa-remove-static-isa-support.patch char-moxa-cleanup-module-param-passed-isa-init.patch char-moxa-pci-io-space-fixup.patch char-moxa-fix-tiocg-ssoftcar-param.patch char-moxa-add-firmware-loading.patch char-moxa-merge-c2xx-and-c320-firmware-loading.patch char-moxa-remove-port-port.patch char-moxa-remove-unused-port-entries.patch char-moxa-centralize-board-readiness.patch char-moxa-timer-cleanup.patch char-moxa-ioctl-cleanup.patch char-moxa-merge-2-poll-functions.patch char-moxa-cleanup-rx-tx.patch char-moxa-serialise-timer.patch char-moxa-rework-open-close.patch char-moxa-little-cleanup.patch char-moxa-remove-useless-tty-functions.patch char-moxa-introduce-moxa_is_320-macro.patch char-moxa-notify-about-board-readiness.patch char-moxa-update-credits.patch char-moxa-add-firmware-loading-fix.patch mxser-convert-large-macros-to-functions.patch reiser4.patch shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html