linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] iwlwifi: yoyo: don't print failure if debug firmware is missing

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Date:   Sun, 26 Jul 2020 20:24:53 +0200
From:   Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>
To:     Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@...el.com>,
        Emmanuel Grumbach <emmanuel.grumbach@...el.com>,
        Luca Coelho <luciano.coelho@...el.com>,
        Intel Linux Wireless <linuxwifi@...el.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] iwlwifi: yoyo: don't print failure if debug firmware
 is missing

On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 09:11:25PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Jun 25, 2020 at 06:52:10PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> >> Missing this firmware is not fatal, my wifi card still works. Even more,
> >> I couldn't find any documentation what it is or where to get it. So, I
> >> don't think the users should be notified if it is missing. If you browse
> >> the net, you see the message is present is in quite some logs. Better
> >> remove it.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@...nel.org>
> >> ---
> >
> > Any input on this? Or people I should add to CC?
> 
> This was discussed on another thread:
> 
> https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87mu3magfp.fsf@tynnyri.adurom.net
> 
> Unless Intel folks object I'm planning to take this to
> wireless-drivers-next.

Cool, thanks for the heads up!


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