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Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2016 10:29:20 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] firmware: add DECLARE_FW_CUSTOM_FALLBACK() annotation
On Fri 2016-12-16 10:22:41, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:04:29PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > We need to ensure that when driver developers use the custom firmware
> > > fallback mechanism it was not a copy and paste bug. These use cases on
> > > upstream drivers are rare, we only have 2 upstream users and its for
> > > really old drivers. Since valid uses are rare but possible enable a
> > > white-list for its use, and use this same white-list annotation to refer
> > > to the documentation covering the custom use case.
> >
> > > --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c
> > > @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ static void lp55xx_firmware_loaded(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)
> > > release_firmware(chip->fw);
> > > }
> > >
> > > +DECLARE_FW_CUSTOM_FALLBACK("Documentation/leds/leds-lp55xx.txt");
> > > static int lp55xx_request_firmware(struct lp55xx_chip *chip)
> > > {
> > > const char *name = chip->cl->name;
> >
> > The driver does:
> >
> > static void lp55xx_firmware_loaded(const struct firmware *fw, void
> > *context)
> > {
> > struct lp55xx_chip *chip = context;
> > struct device *dev = &chip->cl->dev;
> > enum lp55xx_engine_index idx =
> > chip->engine_idx;
> >
> > if (!fw) {
> > dev_err(dev, "firmware request failed\n");
> > goto out;
> > }
> > ...
> > out:
> > /* firmware should be released for other channel use */
> > release_firmware(chip->fw);
> > }
> >
> >
> > Does that match the "custom fallback" definition?
>
> Refer to the documentation I supplied, and also to the grammar rule, in
> particular the patch "firmware: add SmPL report for custom fallback mechanism",
> it captures the SmPL form for the custom fallback mechanism as:
I don't much care what the rule says. If you believe the code is
buggy, submit a patch.
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