From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Errors when firmware is missing
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 20:37:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707072037.44582.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <468FD6B2.6000408@lwfinger.net>
On Saturday 07 July 2007 20:08:50 Larry Finger wrote:
> Jon Smirl wrote:
> > I have a new Broadcom 4318 adapter (which has exactly the same issues
> > with promiscuous mode). I didn't have the right firmware down for it
> > and I received this error message when I did "ifconfig wlan up"
> > SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory. This is not the most user
> > friendly error message, but I did receive a log entry.
>
> If the firmware did not load correctly, the bcm43xx driver logs appropriate messages. This error
> would have been encountered and logged when the interface was brought up. Is that what you meant
> when you say that you received a log entry? The ifconfig error message is output by the user code,
> and is not controlled by any driver.
Well it is. It's -ENOENT, which we return in the driver.
I'd like to return, -ENOFIRMWARE, but there's no such error.
So I selected the most sane error code (to me), which says
file not found...
--
Greetings Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-07 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-07 16:27 Errors when firmware is missing Jon Smirl
2007-07-07 16:41 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 17:24 ` Daniel Drake
2007-07-10 22:58 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 21:34 ` Dan Williams
2007-07-10 22:56 ` Johannes Berg
2007-07-07 18:08 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-07 18:37 ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2007-07-07 21:33 ` Dan Williams
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