At Tue, 5 Aug 2014 17:43:17 +0200, Jean-Michel Hautbois wrote: > > 2014-08-01 22:01 GMT+02:00 <b_b_si...@dell.com>: > > Hi Takashi, > > > > Sorry for the late response, I tried with latest stable kernel 3.15.8. > > surprisingly the BIOS update works even without applying the patch in both > > the cases. > > Hi,I'm sorry for my late answer too, but I didn't try this patch recently... > > I have a Lattice FPGA on my board, and it seems that your patch breaks > the firmware loading. > I have the following config : > CONFIG_FW_LOADER=y > CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=n > FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK=n > LATTICE_ECP3_CONFIG=y
It worked before applying my patch properly...? The kernel Oops itself is a bug in lattice-ecp3-config driver. It blindly assumes that the returned firmware is non-NULL. firmware_load() must have a NULL check of fw at the beginning. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
