Bug#725714: Bug#715408: fixed now, but firmware problems with new installer
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 09:51:48AM +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> On 12.12.2013 01:50, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> >Control: reassign -1 installation-reports
> >
> >On Wed, 2013-12-11 at 21:56 +0100, Andreas Cadhalpun wrote:
> >>It looks like a bug in the linux kernel.
> >
> >I don't think so. The kernel log indicates that it got a negative
> >response from the user agent.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your argument. Do you refer to 'firmware:
> agent aborted' as negative response from the user agent?
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Yes. This is what is supposed to happen when firmware is missing:
1. The driver requests firmware.
2. The kernel tries to load a file under /lib/firmware, and fails.
(This is not implemented in the wheezy kernel.)
3. The kernel sends a request to udev to provide the firmware.
4. udev runs a firmware helper script, which records this request in
/run/udev/firmware-missing and then returns failure.
5. udev reports failure to the kernel.
6. The kernel logs the failure and reports it to the driver.
We know that step 6 has happened, and we can infer from that that
steps 1, 3 and 5 must have happened. The problem is in step 4.
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
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