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Understanding this code is getting out of control without any notes. Give the firmware_class driver a much needed documentation love, and while at it convert it to the new sphinx documentation format. v2: typos and small fixes Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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request_firmware API
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====================
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You would typically load firmware and then load it into your device somehow.
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The typical firmware work flow is reflected below::
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if(request_firmware(&fw_entry, $FIRMWARE, device) == 0)
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copy_fw_to_device(fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size);
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release_firmware(fw_entry);
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Synchronous firmware requests
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=============================
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Synchronous firmware requests will wait until the firmware is found or until
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an error is returned.
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request_firmware
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----------------
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
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:functions: request_firmware
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request_firmware_direct
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-----------------------
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
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:functions: request_firmware_direct
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request_firmware_into_buf
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-------------------------
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
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:functions: request_firmware_into_buf
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Asynchronous firmware requests
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==============================
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Asynchronous firmware requests allow driver code to not have to wait
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until the firmware or an error is returned. Function callbacks are
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provided so that when the firmware or an error is found the driver is
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informed through the callback. request_firmware_nowait() cannot be called
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in atomic contexts.
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request_firmware_nowait
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-----------------------
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_class.c
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:functions: request_firmware_nowait
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request firmware API expected driver use
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========================================
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Once an API call returns you process the firmware and then release the
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firmware. For example if you used request_firmware() and it returns,
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the driver has the firmware image accessible in fw_entry->{data,size}.
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If something went wrong request_firmware() returns non-zero and fw_entry
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is set to NULL. Once your driver is done with processing the firmware it
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can call call release_firmware(fw_entry) to release the firmware image
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and any related resource.
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