If firmware is requested asynchronously, by calling
request_firmware_nowait(), there is no reason to fail the request
(and warn the user) when the system is (presumably temporarily)
unready to handle it (because user space is not available yet or
frozen).  For this reason, introduce an alternative routine for
read-locking umhelper_sem, usermodehelper_read_lock_wait(), that
will wait for usermodehelper_disabled to be unset (possibly with
a timeout) and make request_firmware_work_func() use it instead of
usermodehelper_read_trylock().

Accordingly, modify request_firmware() so that it uses
usermodehelper_read_trylock() to acquire umhelper_sem and remove
the code related to that lock from _request_firmware().
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Split _request_firmware() into three functions,
_request_firmware_prepare() doing preparatory work that need not be
done under umhelper_sem, _request_firmware_cleanup() doing the
post-error cleanup and _request_firmware() carrying out the remaining
operations.

This change is requisite for moving the acquisition of umhelper_sem
from _request_firmware() to the callers, which is going to be done
subsequently.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: NStephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Instead of two functions, read_lock_usermodehelper() and
usermodehelper_is_disabled(), used in combination, introduce
usermodehelper_read_trylock() that will only return with umhelper_sem
held if usermodehelper_disabled is unset (and will return -EAGAIN
otherwise) and make _request_firmware() use it.

Rename read_unlock_usermodehelper() to
usermodehelper_read_unlock() to follow the naming convention of the
new function.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org

Commit b298d289
 "PM / Sleep: Fix freezer failures due to racy usermodehelper_is_disabled()"
added read_unlock_usermodehelper() but read_unlock_usermodehelper() is called
without read_lock_usermodehelper() when kmalloc() failed.
Signed-off-by: NTetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: NSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

This oops was reported recently:
firmware_loading_store+0xf9/0x17b
dev_attr_store+0x20/0x22
sysfs_write_file+0x101/0x134
vfs_write+0xac/0xf3
sys_write+0x4a/0x6e
system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

The complete backtrace was unfortunately not captured, but details can be found
here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=769920

The cause is fairly clear.

Its caused by the fact that firmware_loading_store has a case 0 in its
switch statement that reads and writes the fw_priv->fw poniter without the
protection of the fw_lock mutex.  since there is a window between the time that
_request_firmware sets fw_priv->fw to NULL and the time the corresponding sysfs
file is unregistered, its possible for a user space application to race in, and
write a zero to the loading file, causing a NULL dereference in
firmware_loading_store.  Fix it by extending the protection of the fw_lock mutex
to cover all of the firware_loading_store function.
Signed-off-by: NNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Commit a144c6a6 (PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested when tasks
are frozen) introduced usermodehelper_is_disabled() to warn and exit
immediately if firmware is requested when usermodehelpers are disabled.

However, it is racy. Consider the following scenario, currently used in
drivers/base/firmware_class.c:

...
if (usermodehelper_is_disabled())
        goto out;

/* Do actual work */
...

out:
        return err;

Nothing prevents someone from disabling usermodehelpers just after the check
in the 'if' condition, which means that it is quite possible to try doing the
"actual work" with usermodehelpers disabled, leading to undesirable
consequences.

In particular, this race condition in _request_firmware() causes task freezing
failures whenever suspend/hibernation is in progress because, it wrongly waits
to get the firmware/microcode image from userspace when actually the
usermodehelpers are disabled or userspace has been frozen.
Some of the example scenarios that cause freezing failures due to this race
are those that depend on userspace via request_firmware(), such as x86
microcode module initialization and microcode image reload.

Previous discussions about this issue can be found at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1198291/focus=1200591

This patch adds proper synchronization to fix this issue.

It is to be noted that this patchset fixes the freezing failures but doesn't
remove the warnings. IOW, it does not attempt to add explicit synchronization
to x86 microcode driver to avoid requesting microcode image at inopportune
moments. Because, the warnings were introduced to highlight such cases, in the
first place. And we need not silence the warnings, since we take care of the
*real* problem (freezing failure) and hence, after that, the warnings are
pretty harmless anyway.
Signed-off-by: NSrivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>

In commit a144c6a6 ("PM: Print a warning if firmware is requested
when tasks are frozen") we not only printed a warning if somebody tried
to load the firmware when tasks are frozen - we also failed the load.

But that check was done before the check for built-in firmware, and then
when we disallowed usermode helpers during bootup (commit 288d5abe:
"Boot up with usermodehelper disabled"), that actually means that
built-in modules can no longer load their firmware even if the firmware
is built in too.  Which used to work, and some people depended on it for
the R100 driver.

So move the test for usermodehelper_is_disabled() down, to after
checking the built-in firmware.

This should fix:

	https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40952Reported-by: NJames Cloos <cloos@hjcloos.com>
Bisected-by: NElimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>
Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Some drivers erroneously use request_firmware() from their ->resume()
(or ->thaw(), or ->restore()) callbacks, which is not going to work
unless the firmware has been built in.  This causes system resume to
stall until the firmware-loading timeout expires, which makes users
think that the resume has failed and reboot their machines
unnecessarily.  For this reason, make _request_firmware() print a
warning and return immediately with error code if it has been called
when tasks are frozen and it's impossible to start any new usermode
helpers.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: NValdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>

Some place in firmware_class.c using "int uevent" define, but others use "bool
uevent".
This patch replace all int uevent define to bool.
Signed-off-by: NBob Liu <lliubbo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

In the error path, _request_firmware sets
firmware_p to NULL rather than *firmware_p,
which leads to passing a freed firmware
struct to drivers when the firmware file
cannot be found. Fix this.

Broken by commit f8a4bd34.
Reported-by: NWey-Yi Guy <wey-yi.w.guy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NPekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Both these structures have the same lifetime rules so instead of allocating
and managing them separately embed struct device into struct firmware_priv.
Also make sure to delete sysfs attributes ourselves instead of expecting
sysfs to clean up our mess.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

There is no reason why we are using a template for binary attribute
and copying it into per-firmware data before registering. Using the
original works as well.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This allows bin_attr->read,write,mmap callbacks to check file specific data
(such as inode owner) as part of any privilege validation.
Signed-off-by: NChris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

fw_id has the same life time as firmware_priv so it makes sense to move
it into firmware_priv structure instead of allocating separately.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Split builtin firmware handling into separate functions to clean up the
main body of code.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Do not create 'timeout' attribute manually, let driver core do it for us.
This also ensures that attribute is cleaned up properly.
Signed-off-by: NDmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

When we use request_firmware_nowait(), userspace may
not want to answer negatively right away when for
example it is answering from an initrd only, but
with request_firmware() it has to in order to not
delay the kernel boot until the request times out.

This allows userspace to differentiate between the
two in order to be able to reply negatively to async
requests only when all filesystems have been mounted
and have been checked for the requested firmware file.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The messages from _request_firmware() informing that firmware is
being requested or built-in firmware is going to be used are printed
at KERN_INFO, which produces lots of noise on systems with huge
numbers of AMD CPUs.  Reduce the level of these messages to
KERN_DEBUG to get rid of that noise.
Signed-off-by: NRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

fix memory leak introduced by the patch 6e03a201:
firmware: speed up request_firmware()

1. vfree won't release pages there were allocated explicitly and mapped
using vmap. The memory has to be vunmap-ed and the pages needs
to be freed explicitly

2. page array is moved into the 'struct
firmware' so that we can free it from release_firmware()
and not only in fw_dev_release()

The fix doesn't break the firmware load speed.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Singed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NTomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h

percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>

Fix kernel-doc warning in firmware_class.c:

Warning(drivers/base/firmware_class.c:94): No description found for parameter 'attr'
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Annotate dynamic sysfs attribute in fw_setup_device(). This gets
rid of the following lockdep warning:

bnx2 0000:08:00.0: firmware: requesting bnx2/bnx2-mips-06-5.0.0.j6.fw
BUG: key ffff880008293470 not in .data!
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2706 lockdep_init_map+0x562/0x620()
Modules linked in: bnx2(+) sg tpm_bios floppy rtc_lib usb_storage i2c_piix4 joydev button container shpchp i2c_core sr_mod cdrom pci_hotplug usbhid hid ohci_hcd ehci_hcd sd_mod usbcore edd ext3 mbcache jbd fan ata_generic sata_svw pata_serverworks libata scsi_mod thermal processor
Pid: 1915, comm: work_for_cpu Not tainted 2.6.34-rc1-default #81
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff8107c1d2>] ? lockdep_init_map+0x562/0x620
 [<ffffffff81049fd8>] warn_slowpath_common+0x78/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8104a03f>] warn_slowpath_null+0xf/0x20
 [<ffffffff8107c1d2>] lockdep_init_map+0x562/0x620
 [<ffffffff8117a236>] ? sysfs_new_dirent+0x76/0x120
 [<ffffffff8126edb2>] ? put_device+0x12/0x20
 [<ffffffff811797cc>] sysfs_add_file_mode+0x6c/0xd0
 [<ffffffff8117983c>] sysfs_add_file+0xc/0x10
 [<ffffffff8117bf61>] sysfs_create_bin_file+0x21/0x30
 [<ffffffff81279c61>] _request_firmware+0x2f1/0x650
 [<ffffffff8127a04e>] request_firmware+0xe/0x10
 [<ffffffffa01ec19e>] bnx2_init_one+0x8f5/0x177e [bnx2]
 [<ffffffff81389eab>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x2b/0x40
 [<ffffffff81040ed9>] ? finish_task_switch+0x69/0x100
 [<ffffffff81040e70>] ? finish_task_switch+0x0/0x100
 [<ffffffff81064b40>] ? do_work_for_cpu+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff811e6302>] local_pci_probe+0x12/0x20
 [<ffffffff81064b53>] do_work_for_cpu+0x13/0x30
 [<ffffffff81064b40>] ? do_work_for_cpu+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff81068c56>] kthread+0x96/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81003e64>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
 [<ffffffff8138a350>] ? restore_args+0x0/0x30
 [<ffffffff81068bc0>] ? kthread+0x0/0xa0
 [<ffffffff81003e60>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10
---[ end trace a2ecee9c9602d195 ]---

Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The function name must be followed by a space, hypen, space, and a
short description.
Signed-off-by: NBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

base.h is used by base drivers for sharing internal structures.
Turns out firmware_class does not depend on it at all so remove it.

Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Acked-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Passing the attribute to the low level IO functions allows all kinds
of cleanups, by sharing low level IO code without requiring
an own function for every piece of data.

Also drivers can extend the attributes with own data fields
and use that in the low level function.

This makes the class attributes the same as sysdev_class attributes
and plain attributes.

This will allow further cleanups in drivers.

Full tree sweep converting all users.
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware
that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed
in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to
free it (via release_firmware).

Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current
users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC
isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is
useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the
primary purpose of this change.
Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The page pointers array is allocated in fw_realloc_buffer() called by
firmware_data_write(), and should be freed in release function of firmware
device.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Reported-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add omitted unlock in firmware_data_read.
Signed-off-by: NJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The f_dev in _request_firmware() is allocated via the fw_setup_device()
and fw_register_device() calls and its class set to firmware_class (the
class release function is fw_dev_release).

Commit 6acf70f0 replaced the kfree(dev) in fw_dev_release() with a
put_device() call but my understanding is that the release function is
called via put_device -> kobject_put -> kref_put -> koject_release etc.
and it should call kfree since it's the last to see this device
structure alive.

Because of that, the _request_firmware() function on its -ENOENT error
path only calls device_unregister(f_dev) which would eventually call
fw_dev_release() but there is no kfree (the subsequent put_device call
would just make the kref negative).
Signed-off-by: NCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Acked-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This removes the
	warning: format not a string literal and no format arguments
warnings in the driver core that gcc 4.3.3 complains about.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The firmware loader has a statically allocated 30 bytes long string for
the firmware id (a.k.a. the firmware file name). There is no reason why
we couldnt allocate it dynamically, and avoid having restrictions on the
firmware names lengths.
Signed-off-by: NSamuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <holtmann@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
Cc: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

request_firmware_nowait declares it can be called in non-sleep contexts,
but kthead_run called by request_firmware_nowait may sleep. So fix its
documentation and comment to make callers clear about it.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

against v2.6.30-rc3-next tree.
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Rather than calling vmalloc() repeatedly to grow the firmware image as
we receive data from userspace, just allocate and fill individual pages.
Then vmap() the whole lot in one go when we're done.

A quick test with a 337KiB iwlagn firmware shows the time taken for
request_firmware() going from ~32ms to ~5ms after I apply this patch.

[v2: define PAGE_KERNEL_RO as PAGE_KERNEL where necessary, use min_t()]
[v3: kunmap() takes the struct page *, not the virtual address]
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Tested-by: NSachin Sant <sachinp@in.ibm.com>

This patch implements uevent suppress in kobject and removes it
from struct device, based on the following ideas:

1,Uevent sending should be one attribute of kobject, so suppressing it
in kobject layer is more natural than in device layer. By this way,
we can do it for other objects embedded with kobject.

2,It may save several bytes for each instance of struct device.(On my
omap3(32bit ARM) based box, can save 8bytes per device object)

This patch also introduces dev_set|get_uevent_suppress() helpers to
set and query uevent_suppress attribute in case to help kobject
as private part of struct device in future.

[This version is against the latest driver-core patch set of Greg,please
ignore the last version.]
Signed-off-by: NMing Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Convert printks to use dev_printk().
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Some drivers have their own hacks to bypass the kernel's firmware loader
and build their firmware into the kernel; this renders those unnecessary.

Other drivers don't use the firmware loader at all, because they always
want the firmware to be available. This allows them to start using the
firmware loader.

A third set of drivers already use the firmware loader, but can't be
used without help from userspace, which sometimes requires an initrd.
This allows them to work in a static kernel.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>

In preparation for supporting firmware files linked into the static
kernel, make fw->data const to ensure that users aren't modifying it (so
that we can pass a pointer to the original in-kernel copy, rather than
having to copy it).
Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>