From: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com>
To: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, freedreno@lists.freedesktop.org,
Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>,
Konrad Dybcio <konradybcio@kernel.org>,
Akhil P Oommen <akhilpo@oss.qualcomm.com>,
Dmitry Baryshkov <lumag@kernel.org>,
Abhinav Kumar <abhinav.kumar@linux.dev>,
Jessica Zhang <jesszhan0024@gmail.com>,
Marijn Suijten <marijn.suijten@somainline.org>,
David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>, Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>,
open list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/msm/adreno: Soften no-firmware message
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2026 11:55:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <646b3a89-0a7f-4db5-aea1-42d1f066b4e8@oss.qualcomm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261029001601.82269-1-robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>
Hi,
On 29-Oct-26 1:16 AM, Rob Clark wrote:
> It isn't _necessarily_ an error, the driver will try again each time the
> device file is opened. But if you don't have GPU fw in the initrd, you
> end up seeing this error message at least once. Which seems to confuse
> users. So try to re-word it slightly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robin.clark@oss.qualcomm.com>
Thanks, patch looks good to me:
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <johannes.goede@oss.qualcomm.com>
Regards,
Hans
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c | 8 ++++----
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c
> index 5832dc25d6bf..6db6cb7eb287 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/msm/adreno/adreno_gpu.c
> @@ -558,7 +558,7 @@ adreno_request_fw(struct adreno_gpu *adreno_gpu, const char *fwname)
> adreno_gpu->fwloc = FW_LOCATION_NEW;
> goto out;
> } else if (adreno_gpu->fwloc != FW_LOCATION_UNKNOWN) {
> - DRM_DEV_ERROR(drm->dev, "failed to load %s: %d\n",
> + DRM_DEV_INFO(drm->dev, "failed to load %s: %d (will try again later)\n",
> newname, ret);
> fw = ERR_PTR(ret);
> goto out;
> @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ adreno_request_fw(struct adreno_gpu *adreno_gpu, const char *fwname)
> adreno_gpu->fwloc = FW_LOCATION_LEGACY;
> goto out;
> } else if (adreno_gpu->fwloc != FW_LOCATION_UNKNOWN) {
> - DRM_DEV_ERROR(drm->dev, "failed to load %s: %d\n",
> + DRM_DEV_INFO(drm->dev, "failed to load %s: %d (will try again later)\n",
> fwname, ret);
> fw = ERR_PTR(ret);
> goto out;
> @@ -599,14 +599,14 @@ adreno_request_fw(struct adreno_gpu *adreno_gpu, const char *fwname)
> adreno_gpu->fwloc = FW_LOCATION_HELPER;
> goto out;
> } else if (adreno_gpu->fwloc != FW_LOCATION_UNKNOWN) {
> - DRM_DEV_ERROR(drm->dev, "failed to load %s: %d\n",
> + DRM_DEV_INFO(drm->dev, "failed to load %s: %d (will try again later)\n",
> newname, ret);
> fw = ERR_PTR(ret);
> goto out;
> }
> }
>
> - DRM_DEV_ERROR(drm->dev, "failed to load %s\n", fwname);
> + DRM_DEV_INFO(drm->dev, "failed to load %s (will try again later)\n", fwname);
> fw = ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
> out:
> kfree(newname);
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-29 10:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-29 0:16 Rob Clark
2026-10-29 1:51 ` Dmitry Baryshkov
2026-10-29 7:57 ` Konrad Dybcio
2026-10-29 10:55 ` Hans de Goede [this message]
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