From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:35974 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752226AbeEJUJM (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2018 16:09:12 -0400 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, keescook@chromium.org, josh@joshtriplett.org, maco@android.com, andy.gross@linaro.org, david.brown@linaro.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, teg@jklm.no, wagi@monom.org, hdegoede@redhat.com, andresx7@gmail.com, zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, kubakici@wp.pl, shuah@kernel.org, mfuzzey@parkeon.com, dhowells@redhat.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, tiwai@suse.de, kvalo@codeaurora.org, arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com, zajec5@gmail.com, nbroeking@me.com, markivx@codeaurora.org, broonie@kernel.org, dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com, dwmw2@infradead.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, Abhay_Salunke@dell.com, jewalt@lgsinnovations.com, oneukum@suse.com, cantabile.desu@gmail.com, khc@pm.waw.pl, arve@android.com, tkjos@android.com, corbet@lwn.net, mchehab+samsung@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" Subject: [PATCH v7 12/14] Documentation: fix few typos and clarifications for the firmware loader Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 13:08:48 -0700 Message-Id: <20180510200850.5958-13-mcgrof@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20180510200850.5958-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> References: <20180510200850.5958-1-mcgrof@kernel.org> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Fix a few typos, and clarify a few sentences. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst | 5 +++-- Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst index f353783ae0be..a39323ef7d29 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst @@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ and a file upload firmware into: * /sys/$DEVPATH/data To upload firmware you will echo 1 onto the loading file to indicate -you are loading firmware. You then cat the firmware into the data file, +you are loading firmware. You then write the firmware into the data file, and you notify the kernel the firmware is ready by echo'ing 0 onto the loading file. @@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ by kobject uevents. This is specially exacerbated due to the fact that most distributions today disable CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK. Refer to do_firmware_uevent() for details of the kobject event variables -setup. Variables passwdd with a kobject add event: +setup. The variables currently passed to userspace with a "kobject add" +event are: * FIRMWARE=firmware name * TIMEOUT=timeout value diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst index 2210e5bfb332..c2e69d9c6bf1 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Some implementation details about the firmware cache setup: * If an asynchronous call is used the firmware cache is only set up for a device if if the second argument (uevent) to request_firmware_nowait() is true. When uevent is true it requests that a kobject uevent be sent to - userspace for the firmware request. For details refer to the Fackback - mechanism documented below. + userspace for the firmware request through the sysfs fallback mechanism + if the firmware file is not found. * If the firmware cache is determined to be needed as per the above two criteria the firmware cache is setup by adding a devres entry for the -- 2.17.0