netdev - [PATCH net-next] cassini: Make missing firmware non-fatal

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Message-ID: <1372634007.5155.51.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 01 Jul 2013 00:13:27 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Jose Andres Arias Velichko <Andres.Arias@...sLinux.net>,
	712674@...s.debian.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next] cassini: Make missing firmware non-fatal

The firmware patch for the Saturn PHY fixes a bug, but is not absolutely
essential.  And its licence is unclear, so it is not included in all
distributions.  Just log an error message and continue if it is missing
or invalid.

References: http://bugs.debian.org/712674
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Tested-by: Jose Andres Arias Velichko <Andres.Arias@...sLinux.net> (against 3.2)
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c |   18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
index 4c682a3..759441b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sun/cassini.c
@@ -808,44 +808,43 @@ static int cas_reset_mii_phy(struct cas *cp)
 	return limit <= 0;
 }
 
-static int cas_saturn_firmware_init(struct cas *cp)
+static void cas_saturn_firmware_init(struct cas *cp)
 {
 	const struct firmware *fw;
 	const char fw_name[] = "sun/cassini.bin";
 	int err;
 
 	if (PHY_NS_DP83065 != cp->phy_id)
-		return 0;
+		return;
 
 	err = request_firmware(&fw, fw_name, &cp->pdev->dev);
 	if (err) {
 		pr_err("Failed to load firmware \"%s\"\n",
 		       fw_name);
-		return err;
+		return;
 	}
 	if (fw->size < 2) {
 		pr_err("bogus length %zu in \"%s\"\n",
 		       fw->size, fw_name);
-		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto out;
 	}
 	cp->fw_load_addr= fw->data[1] << 8 | fw->data[0];
 	cp->fw_size = fw->size - 2;
 	cp->fw_data = vmalloc(cp->fw_size);
-	if (!cp->fw_data) {
-		err = -ENOMEM;
+	if (!cp->fw_data)
 		goto out;
-	}
 	memcpy(cp->fw_data, &fw->data[2], cp->fw_size);
 out:
 	release_firmware(fw);
-	return err;
 }
 
 static void cas_saturn_firmware_load(struct cas *cp)
 {
 	int i;
 
+	if (!cp->fw_data)
+		return;
+
 	cas_phy_powerdown(cp);
 
 	/* expanded memory access mode */
@@ -5083,8 +5082,7 @@ static int cas_init_one(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 	if (cas_check_invariants(cp))
 		goto err_out_iounmap;
 	if (cp->cas_flags & CAS_FLAG_SATURN)
-		if (cas_saturn_firmware_init(cp))
-			goto err_out_iounmap;
+		cas_saturn_firmware_init(cp);
 
 	cp->init_block = (struct cas_init_block *)
 		pci_alloc_consistent(pdev, sizeof(struct cas_init_block),


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