Hi,
I'm getting 15 lines of the following in -rc2
/bin/sh: firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw.gen.S: No such file or directory
followed by
firmware/Makefile:185: recipe for target 'firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw.gen.S' failed
make[1]: *** [firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw.gen.S] Error 1
I've now tried bisecting this twice, from v3.15 to v3.16-rc2 but
each time the only bad version was v3.16-rc2 itself which is clearly
not true.
The relevant part of my .config is probably in here:
#
# Generic Driver Options
#
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y
CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
# CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/RS780_pfp.bin radeon/RS780_me.bin rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set
# CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is not set
# CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set
# CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES is not set
CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE=y
CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER=y
and the external firmware is in /lib/firmware :
ken@ac4tv ~ $ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/
total 4
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2804 Feb 18 18:03 rtl8168e-3.fw
So I assume something is erroneously trying to recreate it.
For the second run, I tried using 'make clean' on each build, and
then after a while I changed to 'make mrproper'. Perhaps I should
have used 'mrproper' from the start (never needed it before, and it
does normally slow things down when you approach the guilty commit).
I have now pulled the -rc1 tarball and confirmed that the problem
is present there, but this is doing my head in, so I thought I would
ask if anyone else is hitting this ?
ĸen
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Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.
On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 03:17:23AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm getting 15 lines of the following in -rc2
>
> /bin/sh: firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw.gen.S: No such file or directory
>
> followed by
> firmware/Makefile:185: recipe for target 'firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw.gen.S' failed
> make[1]: *** [firmware/rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw.gen.S] Error 1
>
> I've now tried bisecting this twice, from v3.15 to v3.16-rc2 but
> each time the only bad version was v3.16-rc2 itself which is clearly
> not true.
>
> The relevant part of my .config is probably in here:
>
> #
> # Generic Driver Options
> #
> CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER=y
> CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER_PATH="/sbin/hotplug"
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
> CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
> # CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
> CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD=y
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y
> # CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL is not set
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="radeon/R600_rlc.bin radeon/RS780_pfp.bin radeon/RS780_me.bin rtl_nic/rtl8168e-3.fw"
> CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="/lib/firmware"
> CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER is not set
> # CONFIG_DEBUG_DEVRES is not set
> # CONFIG_SYS_HYPERVISOR is not set
> # CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_DEVICES is not set
> CONFIG_GENERIC_CPU_AUTOPROBE=y
> CONFIG_DMA_SHARED_BUFFER=y
>
> and the external firmware is in /lib/firmware :
>
> ken@ac4tv ~ $ls -l /lib/firmware/rtl_nic/
> total 4
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2804 Feb 18 18:03 rtl8168e-3.fw
>
> So I assume something is erroneously trying to recreate it.
>
> For the second run, I tried using 'make clean' on each build, and
> then after a while I changed to 'make mrproper'. Perhaps I should
> have used 'mrproper' from the start (never needed it before, and it
> does normally slow things down when you approach the guilty commit).
>
> I have now pulled the -rc1 tarball and confirmed that the problem
> is present there, but this is doing my head in, so I thought I would
> ask if anyone else is hitting this ?
>
> ĸen
Update, just in case anybody cares.
I still saw it on -rc3, an attempt to build using what was in linus'
tree the last time I pulled it (a bit after rc2) showed it once, and
bisecting between 3.15-rc8 and 3.16-rc1 with 'make mrproper' on each
build again blamed the version I labelled as bad, i.e. -rc1.
So, I dropped it from my config for -rc3 to see if it would boot
without this. It does, and shows no sign of wanting the firmware.
Weird. I'm _fairly_ sure that an older kernel (some time after I
first put this box together) complained that this firmware was
missing (but appeared to still work), which is why I first added it.
But since -rc3 is happy without this firmware, I don't have a
problem.
ĸen
--
Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady.
Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m.