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Michal Kazior authored
Firmware files are versioned to prevent older driver instances to load unsupported firmware blobs. This is reflected with a fallback logic which attempts to load several firmware files. This however produced a lot of unnecessary warnings sometimes confusing users and leading them to rename firmware files making things even more confusing. Hence use request_firmware_direct() which does not produce extra warnings. This shouldn't really break anything because most modern systems don't rely on udev/hotplug helpers to load firmware files anymore. For example it was confirmed that LEDE does not user helper. This also fixes a 60 second delay per _each_ unexistent firmware/calibration file with distros which have CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK enabled, RHEL being a notable example. Using ath10k with firmware-2.bin this might end up into a five minute delay in boot. Signed-off-by:
Michal Kazior <michal.kazior@tieto.com> [kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com: add more info to the commit log] Signed-off-by:
Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
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