On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 03:34:52PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:

> Yes, I agree, and my question is only on what you mentioned:

>               "it didn't want to load an optional image"

> maybe I misunderstood the above, never mind, :-)

> So one driver should suppose the firmware is there, and the
> firmware shouldn't be zero length, because the driver always
> expects getting some bytes by calling request_firmware().

The point is that there's some firmware which the driver wants to load
but where it's happy to continue if the user didn't provide one and
doesn't want to introduce needless delays.