[PATCH v2] dma: imx-sdma: clarify firmare not found warning

[Vinod Koul]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 10:28:15AM -0200, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > When a firmware cannot be found for the SDMA engine then we can
> > continue with the inernal ROM firmware.
> >
> > The meaning of this message is frequently asked for, so make clear
> > that the driver still works with the internal ROM firmware and reduce
> > the loglevel from err to info.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>
> > Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul at intel.com>
> > Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> > Cc: Shawn Guo <shawn.guo at linaro.org>
> > ---
> >
> > changes since v1:
> > - instead of removing the message make it more clear
> 
> I know this has been posted a long time ago and agree that it would be
> useful to change this dev_err code into dev_info:
In that case cn someone pls repost this...

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~Vinod

> 
> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam at freescale.com>
> 
> >
> >  drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
> > index c75679d..d79eaad 100644
> > --- a/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
> > +++ b/drivers/dma/imx-sdma.c
> > @@ -1259,7 +1259,10 @@ static void sdma_load_firmware(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)
> >         unsigned short *ram_code;
> >
> >         if (!fw) {
> > -               dev_err(sdma->dev, "firmware not found\n");
> > +               dev_info(sdma->dev, "external firmware not found, using ROM firmware\n");
> > +               /*
> > +                * In this case we just use the ROM firmware.
> > +                */
> >                 return;
> >         }
> >
> > --
> > 1.8.5.2

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