Ben Hutchings [Sun, 9 Dec 2012 16:02:00 +0000 (16:02 +0000)]
firmware_class: Log every success and failure against given device
The hundreds of users of request_firmware() have nearly as many
different log formats for reporting failures. They also have only the
vaguest hint as to what went wrong; only firmware_class really knows
that. Therefore, add specific log messages for the failure modes that
aren't currently logged.
In case of a driver that tries multiple names, this may result in the
impression that it failed to initialise. Therefore, also log successes.
This makes many error messages in drivers redundant, which will be
removed in later patches.
This does not cover the case where we fall back to a user-mode helper
(which is no longer enabled in Debian).
NOTE: hw-detect will depend on the "firmware: failed to load %s (%d)\n"
format to detect missing firmware.
Gbp-Pq: Topic bugfix/all
Gbp-Pq: Name firmware_class-log-every-success-and-failure.patch
Ben Hutchings [Fri, 9 Feb 2018 12:58:52 +0000 (12:58 +0000)]
iwlwifi: Do not request unreleased firmware for IWL6000
The iwlwifi driver currently supports firmware API versions 4-6 for
these devices. It will request the file for the latest supported
version and then fall back to earlier versions. However, the latest
version that has actually been released is 4, so we expect the
requests for versions 6 and then 5 to fail.
The installer appears to report any failed request, and it is probably
not easy to detect that this particular failure is harmless. So stop
requesting the unreleased firmware.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name iwlwifi-do-not-request-unreleased-firmware.patch
Ben Hutchings [Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:19:58 +0000 (23:19 +0100)]
af9005: Use request_firmware() to load register init script
Read the register init script from the Windows driver. This is sick
but should avoid the potential copyright infringement in distributing
a version of the script which is directly derived from the driver.
Gbp-Pq: Topic features/all
Gbp-Pq: Name drivers-media-dvb-usb-af9005-request_firmware.patch
Create manpages and binaries including the version
[bwh: Fix version insertion in perf man page cross-references and perf
man page title. Install bash_completion script for perf with a
version-dependent name. And do the same for trace.]
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name tools-perf-version.patch
Chris Boot [Mon, 1 Jul 2013 22:10:02 +0000 (23:10 +0100)]
modpost symbol prefix setting
[bwh: The original version of this was added by Bastian Blank. The
upstream code includes <generated/autoconf.h> so that <linux/export.h>
can tell whether C symbols have an underscore prefix. Since we build
modpost separately from the kernel, <generated/autoconf.h> won't exist.
However, no Debian Linux architecture uses the symbol prefix, so we
can simply omit it.]
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name modpost-symbol-prefix.patch
Ben Hutchings [Tue, 12 May 2015 18:29:22 +0000 (19:29 +0100)]
Make mkcompile_h accept an alternate timestamp string
We want to include the Debian version in the utsname::version string
instead of a full timestamp string. However, we still need to provide
a standard timestamp string for gen_initramfs_list.sh to make the
kernel image reproducible.
Make mkcompile_h use $KBUILD_BUILD_VERSION_TIMESTAMP in preference to
$KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP.
Gbp-Pq: Topic debian
Gbp-Pq: Name uname-version-timestamp.patch