Re: [PATCH V2 2/2] brcmfmac: don't warn user about NVRAM if fallback to platform one succeeds

From: RafaÅ MiÅecki
Date: Thu Feb 16 2017 - 04:51:19 EST


On 2017-02-16 10:18, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
On 16-2-2017 10:04, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
On 2017-02-16 09:38, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
On 16-2-2017 8:26, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote:
From: RafaÅ MiÅecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Failing to load NVRAM file isn't critical if we manage to get platform
one in the fallback path. It means warnings like:
[ 10.801506] brcmfmac 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for
brcm/brcmfmac43602-pcie.txt failed with error -2
are unnecessary & disturbing for people with platform NVRAM. This is
very common case for Broadcom home routers.

So instead of printing warning immediately with the firmware subsystem
let's first try our fallback code. If that fails as well, then it's a
right moment to print an error.

This should reduce amount of false reports from users seeing this
warning while having wireless working perfectly fine.

There are of course people with issues who take this warning as a straw
to clutch.

Signed-off-by: RafaÅ MiÅecki <rafal@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
V2: Update commit message as it wasn't clear enough (thanks Andy) &
add extra
messages to the firmware.c.

Kalle, Arend: this patch is strictly related to the bigger 1/2. Could
you ack
this change as I expect this patchset to be picked by Ming, Luis or
Greg?
---
.../net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c | 16
+++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git
a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
index c7c1e9906500..510a76d99eee 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/firmware.c
@@ -462,8 +462,14 @@ static void brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done(const
struct firmware *fw, void *ctx)
raw_nvram = false;
} else {
data = bcm47xx_nvram_get_contents(&data_len);
- if (!data && !(fwctx->flags & BRCMF_FW_REQ_NV_OPTIONAL))
- goto fail;
+ if (!data) {
+ brcmf_dbg(TRACE, "Failed to get platform NVRAM\n");
+ if (!(fwctx->flags & BRCMF_FW_REQ_NV_OPTIONAL)) {
+ brcmf_err("Loading NVRAM from %s and using platform
one both failed\n",
+ fwctx->nvram_name);
+ goto fail;
+ }
+ }
raw_nvram = true;
}

@@ -504,9 +510,9 @@ static void brcmf_fw_request_code_done(const
struct firmware *fw, void *ctx)
return;
}
fwctx->code = fw;
- ret = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, fwctx->nvram_name,
- fwctx->dev, GFP_KERNEL, fwctx,
- brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done);
+ ret = request_firmware_async(THIS_MODULE, FW_OPT_NO_WARN,
+ fwctx->nvram_name, fwctx->dev, GFP_KERNEL,
+ fwctx, brcmf_fw_request_nvram_done);

You changed the behaviour, because of your change in patch 1/2:

- fw_work->opt_flags = FW_OPT_NOWAIT | FW_OPT_FALLBACK |
- (uevent ? FW_OPT_UEVENT : FW_OPT_USERHELPER);
+ fw_work->opt_flags = FW_OPT_NOWAIT | opt_flags;

So: (FW_OPT_NOWAIT | FW_OPT_UEVENT) vs (FW_OPT_NOWAIT | FW_OPT_NO_WARN)

Sorry, I didn't realize brcmfmac needs FW_OPT_UEVENT. I'll re-add it in
V3, just
let me wait to see if there will be more comments.

To be honest whether or not FW_OPT_UEVENT is needed should not be
something a driver needs to concern about. It is really a system
configuration issue if you ask me. So the only thing we could do is to
have it just in case.

Drivers always got a choice (see bool uevent) so I didn't want to change it.