firmware loader: introduce cache_firmware and uncache_firmware
This patches introduce two kernel APIs of cache_firmware and
uncache_firmware, both of which take the firmware file name
as the only parameter.
So any drivers can call cache_firmware to cache the specified
firmware file into kernel memory, and can use the cached firmware
in situations which can't request firmware from user space.
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/firmware.h b/include/linux/firmware.h
index e85b771..e4279fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/firmware.h
+++ b/include/linux/firmware.h
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
void (*cont)(const struct firmware *fw, void *context));
void release_firmware(const struct firmware *fw);
+int cache_firmware(const char *name);
+int uncache_firmware(const char *name);
#else
static inline int request_firmware(const struct firmware **fw,
const char *name,
@@ -65,6 +67,16 @@
static inline void release_firmware(const struct firmware *fw)
{
}
+
+static inline int cache_firmware(const char *name)
+{
+ return -ENOENT;
+}
+
+static inline int uncache_firmware(const char *name)
+{
+ return -EINVAL;
+}
#endif
#endif