Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Alexander Dalm
Hi Cyril, > That's not what it does. It is there to determine whether it's a bad > idea to reload a module. That's quite a different story… And no, between > two mainloop iterations, that part wouldn't change anyway. indeed. I thought the device would be configured after upnics at the beginning

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Brandon Werner
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, at 7:34 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > That's not to say I won't try and get a tentative patch before then… > Would you be happy to test a custom netinst that I would build locally > (i.e. outside cdimage.debian.org and the official infrastructure)? I'd be happy to test an

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Brandon Werner (2023-02-06): > This makes sense, and both solutions seem like they would work. It > seems like the second solution of keeping the unconditional reload and > testing if the list of files was smaller after the reload would be > easier to implement for Bookworm, but I think you and

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Brandon Werner
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, at 5:33 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > Brandon Werner (2023-02-06): >> Thanks for your response. I have included the syslog lines from the >> installer log you requested. > > OK, that's basically what I thought was happening, but it's always a > good idea to

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Brandon, Brandon Werner (2023-02-06): > Thanks for your response. I have included the syslog lines from the > installer log you requested. OK, that's basically what I thought was happening, but it's always a good idea to check a hypothesis before deciding what to do about it. :) I think I

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Brandon Werner
On Mon, Feb 6, 2023, at 4:36 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Hi Brandon, > > Brandon Werner (2023-02-05): >> I saw the recent work to the installer surrounding firmware handling >> and thought I would test on my machines to see how this all was >> working. I used one of the daily sid_d-i netinst

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Alexander Dalm (2023-02-06): > But there is actually a function nic_is_configured() that is used to > determine if the module has to be removed and reloaded after files are > installed. That's not what it does. It is there to determine whether it's a bad idea to reload a module. That's quite a

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Brandon, Brandon Werner (2023-02-05): > I saw the recent work to the installer surrounding firmware handling > and thought I would test on my machines to see how this all was > working. I used one of the daily sid_d-i netinst cds including > firmware. I noticed some problems around the

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-06 Thread Alexander Dalm
Hi Brandon, good point. currently hw-detect / check-missing-firmware doesn't checks if a specific firmware file is optional or required, I even considered asking for the optional ones as well as a feature. But there is actually a function nic_is_configured() that is used to determine if the

Bug#1030636: Debian Installer complains about missing firmware in ath10k, even when using image with firmware included

2023-02-05 Thread Brandon Werner
package: hw-detect version: 1.154 Hello, I saw the recent work to the installer surrounding firmware handling and thought I would test on my machines to see how this all was working. I used one of the daily sid_d-i netinst cds including firmware. I noticed some problems around the installer