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Subject: Re: [PATCH] smctr: use request_firmware()
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 21:30 +0200, maximilian attems wrote:
> 
> thanks a lot, please add a printk for users:
>         printk(KERN_ERR "smctr: Can't load firmware file tr_smctr.bin\n")

I think you get that kind of failure report from udev anyway, don't you?
You certainly get the 'trying to load...' from the kernel.

-- 
dwmw2