linux-kernel - Re: bnx2: broken firware loading

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Message-Id: <E1c4twG-0003Bq-JR@dex.edzone.net>
Date:   Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:19:04 -0500 (EST)
From:   Jay Rouman <jsr@....edzone.net>
To:     Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>
CC:     Frank Reppin <frank@...ermydesk.org>, pmenzel@...gen.mpg.de,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, jroedel@...e.de
Subject: Re: bnx2: broken firware loading

Did this get pushed upstream?  I see a new patch for 4.8.7 but the BNX2
regression doesn't seem to be fixed.  Or am I missing something?
-- 
Jay Rouman (jsr@...one.net)
Gratiot/Isabella RESD, Ithaca, MI

> 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