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Message-ID: <1495026290.2442.6.camel@sipsolutions.net> Date: Wed, 17 May 2017 15:04:50 +0200 From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> To: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>, Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Daniel Wagner <wagi@...om.org>, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>, David Gnedt <david.gnedt@...izone.at>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>, Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>, Ivaylo Dimitrov <ivo.g.dimitrov.75@...il.com>, Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>, AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>, Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@...aro.org>, Grazvydas Ignotas <notasas@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, Michał Kazior <kazikcz@...il.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/6] wl1251: Use request_firmware_prefer_user() for loading NVS calibration data On Wed, 2017-05-17 at 14:53 +0200, Pali Rohár wrote: > > In fact, why should the *driver* care either? IOW - why should > > "request_firmware_prefer_user()" even exist? > > There are default/example NVS data, which are stored in /lib/firmware > and installed by linux-firmware package. [...] Oh, so you're saying you want this to invert the order ... Ok, that makes some sense. I still hope that all other requests will eventually fall back to user loading though, I think that's important to system integration in general. johannes
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