On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 11:17:15AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 10:23:56AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> > This makes it clearer that the parameters passed are only used for
> > the preallocated buffer option, ie, when a caller uses:
> >
> > request_firmware_into_buf()
> >
> > Otherwise this code won't run. We flip the logic just so the actual
> > prellocated buf code is not indented.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcg...@kernel.org>
> > ---
> > drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 11 +++++++++--
> > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > index 4f64410fe7e6..aba3f2cbe2f4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
> > @@ -146,6 +146,14 @@ static struct firmware_cache fw_cache;
> > extern struct builtin_fw __start_builtin_fw[];
> > extern struct builtin_fw __end_builtin_fw[];
> >
> > +static void fw_copy_to_prealloc_buf(struct firmware *fw,
> > + void *buf, size_t size)
> > +{
> > + if (!buf || size < fw->size)
> > + return;
>
> Shouldn't this return an error?
No, its a no-op when these are not set, and its actually *why* I created
the function. The parameters are *only* useful for the prealloc buf fw
calls. Keeping track of all this while reading the code is actually not
easy and this should make it clearer.
>
> > + memcpy(buf, fw->data, fw->size);
>
> I'll take this, but it feels really odd...
Thanks.
Luis
