Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2017-01-20 Thread Michal Kazior
On 20 January 2017 at 13:51, Kalle Valo wrote: > Michal Kazior wrote: >> Firmware files are versioned to prevent older >> driver instances to load unsupported firmware >> blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic >> which attempts to load

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2017-01-20 Thread Kalle Valo
Michal Kazior wrote: > Firmware files are versioned to prevent older > driver instances to load unsupported firmware > blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic > which attempts to load several firmware files. > > This however produced a lot of unnecessary >

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-03 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 03-08-16 19:10, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:04:39PM +, Valo, Kalle wrote: >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: >> >>> On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 01:33:31PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: On 02-08-16 16:16, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue,

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 03:04:39PM +, Valo, Kalle wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > > > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 01:33:31PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > >> On 02-08-16 16:16, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > >> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +, Valo, Kalle

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-03 Thread Valo, Kalle
"Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 01:33:31PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: >> On 02-08-16 16:16, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +, Valo, Kalle wrote: >> >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: >> >> >> >>> I

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-03 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 01:33:31PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 02-08-16 16:16, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +, Valo, Kalle wrote: > >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > >> > >>> I was considering this as a future extension to the

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-03 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 02-08-16 16:16, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +, Valo, Kalle wrote: >> "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: >> >>> I was considering this as a future extension to the firmware API >>> through the new extensible firmware API, the sysdata API. >>

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-02 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +, Valo, Kalle wrote: > "Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > > > I was considering this as a future extension to the firmware API > > through the new extensible firmware API, the sysdata API. > > I think Linus mentioned this already, but I want

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-02 Thread Felix Fietkau
On 2016-08-02 13:18, Valo, Kalle wrote: > Michal Kazior writes: > >> Firmware files are versioned to prevent older >> driver instances to load unsupported firmware >> blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic >> which attempts to load several firmware files. >> >>

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-02 Thread Valo, Kalle
Michal Kazior writes: > Firmware files are versioned to prevent older > driver instances to load unsupported firmware > blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic > which attempts to load several firmware files. > > This however produced a lot of unnecessary >

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-08-02 Thread Valo, Kalle
"Luis R. Rodriguez" writes: > I was considering this as a future extension to the firmware API > through the new extensible firmware API, the sysdata API. I think Linus mentioned this already, but I want to reiterate anyway. The name "sysdata" is horrible, I didn't have any

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-28 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 09:23:35PM +0200, Arend van Spriel wrote: > On 23-07-16 00:05, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > The firmware API is a mess and I've been trying to correct that > > with a more flexible API. <-- snip --> > > Extensions to the fw API are IMHO best done through a newer flexible

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-28 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 23-07-16 00:15, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:26:00PM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >>> + Luis >>> >>> On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers)

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-28 Thread Arend van Spriel
On 23-07-16 00:05, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >> + Luis >> >> On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >>> (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-25 Thread Emmanuel Grumbach
On Sat, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:19 AM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 08:51:36AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> On 07/22/2016 08:21 AM, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >> >> Another option to solve to problem would be stop requesting not >> >> available publicly

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 08:51:36AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > On 07/22/2016 08:21 AM, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > >> Another option to solve to problem would be stop requesting not > >> available publicly firmware. However, I assume some drivers would > >> like to preserve that option. > > > >

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:26:00PM +0200, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > > + Luis > > > > On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > > (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) > > > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > + Luis > > On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 07/21/2016 04:05 AM, Stanislaw

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Prarit Bhargava
On 07/22/2016 08:21 AM, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > On 22-7-2016 12:26, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >>> + Luis >>> >>> On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) On Thu, Jul

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Arend Van Spriel
On 22-7-2016 12:26, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: >> + Luis >> >> On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >>> (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) >>> >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Stanislaw Gruszka
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:38:24AM +0200, Arend Van Spriel wrote: > + Luis > > On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) > > > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > >> > >> > >> On 07/21/2016 04:05 AM, Stanislaw

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-22 Thread Arend Van Spriel
+ Luis On 21-7-2016 13:51, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: >> >> >> On 07/21/2016 04:05 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:36:42AM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote:

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-21 Thread Prarit Bhargava
On 07/21/2016 07:51 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > (cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) >>> >>> I'm not sure if replacing to request_firmware_direct() is a good >>> fix though. For example I can see this problem also on brcmfmac, which >>> use request_firmware_nowait(). I think I would

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-21 Thread Stanislaw Gruszka
(cc: firmware and brcmfmac maintainers) On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 06:23:11AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote: > > > On 07/21/2016 04:05 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:36:42AM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-21 Thread Prarit Bhargava
On 07/21/2016 04:05 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:36:42AM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka >> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:37PM +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: Firmware files are

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-21 Thread Stanislaw Gruszka
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:36:42AM +0300, Emmanuel Grumbach wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka > wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:37PM +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: > >> Firmware files are versioned to prevent older > >> driver instances to

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-21 Thread Emmanuel Grumbach
On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:37PM +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: >> Firmware files are versioned to prevent older >> driver instances to load unsupported firmware >> blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic >>

Re: [RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-21 Thread Stanislaw Gruszka
On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 03:00:37PM +0200, Michal Kazior wrote: > Firmware files are versioned to prevent older > driver instances to load unsupported firmware > blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic > which attempts to load several firmware files. > > This however produced a lot of

[RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

2016-07-19 Thread Michal Kazior
Firmware files are versioned to prevent older driver instances to load unsupported firmware blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic which attempts to load several firmware files. This however produced a lot of unnecessary warnings sometimes confusing users and leading them to rename