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From:   Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Jul 2020 15:13:48 +0200
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Subject: Re: iwlwifi: Direct firmware load for iwl-debug-yoyo.bin failed with
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To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc:     Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@intel.com>,
        Shahar S Matityahu <shahar.s.matityahu@intel.com>,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>,
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 9:23 AM Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org> wrote:
>
> Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am seeing this failed/error message for a long time:
> >
> > [Sat Jul 25 13:03:28 2020] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load
> > for iwl-debug-yoyo.bin failed with error -2
> >
> > So, I started to look for the file "iwl-debug-yoyo.bin" in [1], but failed.
> > AFAICS this is a file for debugging purposes?
> >
> > Why do I see such a message as an end-user w/o iwlwifi-debugging enabled?
> > For some end-users I can imagine this looks scary and they will look
> > into their cupboards and below their beds but will not find any
> > monsters.
> >
> > I found a rename from an ini file to bin here:
> > commit 8d9e982bf9bf ("iwlwifi: dbg_ini: rename external debug
> > configuration file")
> >
> > Is "iwl-debug-yoyo.bin" a binary or as before an ini (text) file I
> > have to configure somehow.
> >
> > Does this need to be guarded by some "ifdef CONFIG_IWLWIFI_DEBUG" in
> > "drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-dbg-tlv.c"?
> >
> > Or does drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/Makefile needs some tuning
> > - as said I have no iwlwifi debugging enabled via Kconfig?
> > ...
> > iwlwifi-objs            += iwl-dbg-tlv.o
> >
> > Please enlighten me/us?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Sedat -
> >
> > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/iwlwifi/linux-firmware.git/
> > [2] https://git.kernel.org/linus/e8d9e982bf9bf0e6f99099f1f09a37563b2b95b5
> >
> >>From my dmesg-output:
> >
> > [Sa Jul 25 13:03:28 2020] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: can't disable ASPM; OS
> > doesn't have ASPM control
> > [Sa Jul 25 13:03:28 2020] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: loaded firmware
> > version 18.168.6.1 6000g2b-6.ucode op_mode iwldvm
> > [Sa Jul 25 13:03:28 2020] iwlwifi 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load
> > for iwl-debug-yoyo.bin failed with error -2
>
> There's an RFC patch about this:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/11625759/
>
> I think that should be applied. Intel folks, should I take that directly
> to wireless-drivers-next?
>

Reported-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> # Linux v5.8-rc7; GCC
v10.2 + GNU/ld v2.35

- Sedat -