From: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>,
David Brown <david.brown@linaro.org>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
BCM Kernel Feedback <bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com>,
Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf
Date: Thu, 23 May 2019 22:01:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44282070-ddaf-3afb-9bdc-4751e3f197ac@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190523165424.GA21048@kroah.com>
On 2019-05-23 9:54 a.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 09:36:02AM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>> Hi Greg,
>>
>> On 2019-05-22 10:52 p.m., Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 07:51:12PM -0700, Scott Branden wrote:
>>>> Add offset to request_firmware_into_buf to allow for portions
>>>> of firmware file to be read into a buffer. Necessary where firmware
>>>> needs to be loaded in portions from file in memory constrained systems.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Scott Branden <scott.branden@broadcom.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> drivers/base/firmware_loader/firmware.h | 5 +++
>>>> drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++--------
>>>> include/linux/firmware.h | 8 +++-
>>>> 3 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>>> No new firmware test for this new option? How do we know it even works?
>> I was unaware there are existing firmware tests. Please let me know where
>> these tests exists and I can add a test for this new option.
> tools/testing/selftests/firmware/
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a test for the existing
request_firmware_into_buf api.
Looks like it will be more work that I thought enhancing a test that
doesn't exist.
>
>> We have tested this with a new driver in development which requires the
>> firmware file to be read in portions into memory. I can add my tested-by
>> and others to the commit message if desired.
> I can't take new apis without an in-kernel user, you all know this...
OK, It will have to wait then as I was hoping to get this in before my
leave.
But adding a selftest and upstreaming the necessary driver
won't be possible for a few months now.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Thanks for explaining the requirements.
Scott
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-24 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-23 2:51 [PATCH 0/3] fs: add partial file read support Scott Branden
2019-05-23 2:51 ` [PATCH 1/3] fs: introduce kernel_pread_file* support Scott Branden
2019-05-23 2:51 ` [PATCH 2/3] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf Scott Branden
2019-05-23 5:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-23 16:36 ` Scott Branden
2019-05-23 16:54 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-24 5:01 ` Scott Branden [this message]
2019-05-24 5:22 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-01 0:18 ` Scott Branden
2019-08-01 6:18 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-08-01 17:42 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-08-01 18:15 ` Scott Branden
2019-08-19 22:22 ` Luis Chamberlain
2019-05-23 2:51 ` [PATCH 3/3] soc: qcom: mdt_loader: " Scott Branden
2019-05-23 5:52 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-23 16:41 ` Scott Branden
2019-05-23 16:56 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-05-27 5:36 ` Bjorn Andersson
2019-07-30 23:02 ` Scott Branden
2019-08-22 19:33 ` Scott Branden
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