linux-kernel - Re: bnx2: broken firware loading

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Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2016 08:19:09 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
To:     Frank Reppin <frank@...ermydesk.org>, jsr@....edzone.net,
        pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: bnx2: broken firware loading

Yes, Paul has reported this. Sorry about this!

Will work on it right away.

Thanks
Baoquan

On 11/08/16 at 11:50pm, Frank Reppin wrote:
> Hellos,
> 
> ... firmware loading seems to be somewhat broken now with/since
> 
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/commit/drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnx2.c?id=3e1be7ad2d38c6bd6aeef96df9bd0a7822f4e51c
> 
> which gives me - on 4.8.6:
> 
> bnx2 0000:05:00.0: Direct firmware load for bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-6.2.3.fw
> failed with error -2
> 
> Reverting this commit does fix it (tested on 4.8.6 too) - but it's ofcourse
> not what you've initially intended.
> 
> TIA,
> Frank Reppin
> 
> -- 
> 43rd Law of Computing:
>         Anything that can go wr
> fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped