From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
Cc: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Errors when firmware is missing
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:56:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1184108187.3738.25.camel@johannes.berg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1183844074.16396.3.camel@xo-13-A4-25.localdomain>
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On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 17:34 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> Drivers should be returning -ENOENT (the error from request_firmware()
> when the firmware isn't found) when userspace sets IFF_UP on the device,
> so that userspace has the faintest hope of intelligently informing the
> user.
Makes sense to me. Since it knows which driver is used it could even
tell the user where to get firmware :P
johannes
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-11 9:40 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 [this message]
2007-07-07 18:08 ` Larry Finger
2007-07-07 18:37 ` Michael Buesch
2007-07-07 21:33 ` Dan Williams
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