linux-kernel - Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

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Date:	Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:35:08 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Jack Stone <jwjstone@...tmail.fm>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	Chaoming Li <chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Wireless List <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.

> To make the firmware caching easier I would propose one extra function
> in addition to the aforemensioned get_firmware / put_firmware - a
> find_firmware function to search the cache and return the appropriate
> firmware blob. 

If the caller has a recount they have a pointer. If the caller can't work
out how to assign a 32bit value to a field in a struct please get them to
work on something less important than kernel code.

Alan
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