linux/include
Jacob Keller b44cfd4f5b devlink: move request_firmware out of driver
All drivers which implement the devlink flash update support, with the
exception of netdevsim, use either request_firmware or
request_firmware_direct to locate the firmware file. Rather than having
each driver do this separately as part of its .flash_update
implementation, perform the request_firmware within net/core/devlink.c

Replace the file_name parameter in the struct devlink_flash_update_params
with a pointer to the fw object.

Use request_firmware rather than request_firmware_direct. Although most
Linux distributions today do not have the fallback mechanism
implemented, only about half the drivers used the _direct request, as
compared to the generic request_firmware. In the event that
a distribution does support the fallback mechanism, the devlink flash
update ought to be able to use it to provide the firmware contents. For
distributions which do not support the fallback userspace mechanism,
there should be essentially no difference between request_firmware and
request_firmware_direct.

Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Acked-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@pensando.io>
Acked-by: Vasundhara Volam <vasundhara-v.volam@broadcom.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
2020-11-19 21:40:57 -08:00
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acpi pci-v5.10-changes 2020-10-22 12:41:00 -07:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'for-5.10-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dennis/percpu 2020-11-15 08:57:19 -08:00
clocksource
crypto
drm drm: drm_print.h: fix kernel-doc markups 2020-10-27 11:21:39 +01:00
dt-bindings ARM: Devicetree updates 2020-10-24 10:44:18 -07:00
keys
kunit kunit: fix display of failed expectations for strings 2020-11-10 13:45:15 -07:00
kvm ARM: 2020-10-23 11:17:56 -07:00
linux Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
math-emu
media ARM: SoC platform updates 2020-10-24 10:33:08 -07:00
memory
misc
net devlink: move request_firmware out of driver 2020-11-19 21:40:57 -08:00
pcmcia
ras mm,hwpoison: introduce MF_MSG_UNSPLIT_THP 2020-10-16 11:11:17 -07:00
rdma RDMA: Add rdma_connect_locked() 2020-10-28 09:14:49 -03:00
scsi SCSI misc on 20201023 2020-10-23 16:19:02 -07:00
soc soc/fsl/qbman: Add an argument to signal if NAPI processing is required. 2020-11-03 17:41:03 -08:00
sound ALSA: make snd_kcontrol_new name a normal string 2020-10-26 20:28:59 +01:00
target
trace Just one quick fix for a tracing oops. 2020-11-18 12:06:34 -08:00
uapi Merge https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net 2020-11-19 19:08:46 -08:00
vdso
video gpu: ipu-v3: remove unused functions 2020-10-26 10:42:38 +01:00
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