Hi,
Kenneth Aafløy wrote:
>
> Here is a patch for av7110.c that is verbose if the firmware file is just not
> found, displaying a message on where it usually is and where to get it.
> ret = request_firmware(&fw, "dvb-ttpci-01.fw", &av7110->dev->pci->dev);
> if (ret) {
> - printk("dvb-ttpci: cannot request firmware!\n");
> + if (ret == -ENOENT) {
> + printk(KERN_ERR "dvb-ttpci: could not load firmware,"
> + " file not found: dvb-ttpci-01.fw\n");
> + printk(KERN_INFO "dvb-ttpci: usually this should be in"
> + " /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware\n");
It's nice that request_firmware() now reports ENOENT if the
hotplug.agent could not find the file. I changed all message levels to
KERN_ERR to avoid that someone seems only a partial error message.
Thanks,
Johannes
