On 9/14/19 12:00 AM, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 07:25:07PM CEST, dsah...@gmail.com wrote: >> On 9/12/19 12:29 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> >>> >>> I was under impression they are already merged, but apparently they are >>> not. I just rebased them on top of current iproute2 net-next tree. >>> >> >> they were not forgotten; they were dropped asking for changes. >> >> thread is here: >> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190604134450.2839-3-j...@resnulli.us/ > > Well not really. The path was discussed in the thread. However, that is > unrelated to the changes these patches do. The flashing itself is > already there and present. These patches only add status. > > Did I missed something? >
you are thinking like a kernel developer and not a user. The second patch has a man page change that should state that firmware files are expected to be in /lib/firmware and that path is added by the kernel so the path passed on the command line needs to drop that part.