[RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

Arend van Spriel arend.vanspriel at broadcom.com
Wed Aug 3 04:33:31 PDT 2016



On 02-08-16 16:16, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 11:10:22AM +0000, Valo, Kalle wrote:
>> "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof at kernel.org> writes:
>>
>>> I was considering this as a future extension to the firmware API
>>> through the new extensible firmware API, the sysdata API.
>>
>> I think Linus mentioned this already, but I want to reiterate anyway.
>> The name "sysdata" is horrible, I didn't have any idea what it means
>> until I read your description. Please continue to use the term
>> "firmware", anyone already know what it means.
> 
> We've gone well past using the firmware API for firmware though, if
> we use it for 802.11 to replace CRDA for instance its really odd to
> be calling it firmware. But sure... I will rebrand again to firmware...

I tend to agree. Although some people even call an OpenWrt image
firmware. Guess it is just in the eye of the beholder.

Regards,
Arend



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