[RFC] ath10k: silence firmware file probing warnings

Luis R. Rodriguez mcgrof at kernel.org
Tue Aug 2 07:16:10 PDT 2016


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...

  Luis



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