Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756814Ab3ILSqi (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:46:38 -0400 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:50563 "EHLO out3-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754938Ab3ILSqe (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:46:34 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: NtxlD7EgM7kgL4LKsa+mn3V6R0opxa2X0QvsK4+x3mxz 1379011593 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:46:30 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh To: Neil Horman Cc: Ming Lei , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: Be a bit more verbose about direct firmware loading failure Message-ID: <20130912184630.GA15948@khazad-dum.debian.net> References: <1378496168-3684-1-git-send-email-nhorman@tuxdriver.com> <20130911141943.GA3181@neilslaptop.think-freely.org> <20130912131655.GA8619@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130912131655.GA8619@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1024D/1CDB0FE3 5422 5C61 F6B7 06FB 7E04 3738 EE25 DE3F 1CDB 0FE3 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1191 Lines: 25 On Thu, 12 Sep 2013, Neil Horman wrote: > Both of these execptions should be rare, and are something the administrator > will want to know about, so as not to confuse the real error with the mystery > -ENOENT you would get if you fell back to the user mode helepr and it wansn't > configured on in the running kernel. Except, of course, for Intel processor microcode updates, which are going to cause ENOENT on a large number of systems. This will generate a large number of questions by users on the distro MLs. However, IMHO this is *not* a reason to refuse this patch series. If anything, at least for Debian I will use it as an opportunity to educate people about the existence of microcode update packages in "non-free". -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/