Re: [PATCH] firmware: Be a bit more verbose about direct firmwareloading failure

From: Neil Horman
Date: Thu Sep 12 2013 - 11:03:04 EST


On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 10:30:59PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> > Please re-read the patch, then point out to me which printk the above action
> > will trigger, because its not happening in my testing. If you'll take a look at
> > fw_get_filesystem_firmware, you'll see that if the filp_open on a firmware file
> > fails, we continue the for loop through the list of available search paths. No
> > error is generated in the case you describe above.
>
> You are right, sorry for missing "if (IS_ERR(file)) continue;", and looks the
> patch is good.
>
> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
Awesome, thanks!
Neil

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> Ming Lei
>
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