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firmware: teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystem
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 22:58:32 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 3 Oct 2012 22:58:32 +0000 (15:58 -0700)
commitabb139e75c2cdbb955e840d6331cb5863e409d0e
tree2b6c986488d3a2444095153b167c0e0f82a0b487
parentdf5a2a1fbca44bebeebb78530ac93c734f289707
firmware: teach the kernel to load firmware files directly from the filesystem

This is a first step in allowing people to by-pass udev for loading
device firmware.  Current versions of udev will deadlock (causing us to
block for the 30 second timeout) under some circumstances if the
firmware is loaded as part of the module initialization path, and this
is causing problems for media drivers in particular.

The current patch hardcodes the firmware path that udev uses by default,
and will fall back to the legacy udev mode if the firmware cannot be
found there.  We'd like to add support for both configuring the paths
and the fallback behaviour, but in the meantime this hopefully fixes the
immediate problem, while also giving us a way forward.

[ v2: Some VFS layer interface cleanups suggested by Al Viro ]
[ v3: use the default udev paths suggested by Kay Sievers ]

Suggested-by: Ivan Kalvachev <ikalvachev@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@redhat.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/base/firmware_class.c