Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c

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+/*
+ * firmware_sample_driver.c -
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2003 Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>
+ *
+ * Sample code on how to use request_firmware() from drivers.
+ *
+ * Note that register_firmware() is currently useless.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+
+#include "linux/firmware.h"
+
+#define WE_CAN_NEED_FIRMWARE_BEFORE_USERSPACE_IS_AVAILABLE
+#ifdef WE_CAN_NEED_FIRMWARE_BEFORE_USERSPACE_IS_AVAILABLE
+char __init inkernel_firmware[] = "let's say that this is firmware\n";
+#endif
+
+static struct device ghost_device = {
+	.name      = "Ghost Device",
+	.bus_id    = "ghost0",
+};
+
+
+static void sample_firmware_load(char *firmware, int size)
+{
+	u8 buf[size+1];
+	memcpy(buf, firmware, size);
+	buf[size] = '\0';
+	printk("firmware_sample_driver: firmware: %s\n", buf);
+}
+
+static void sample_probe_default(void)
+{
+	/* uses the default method to get the firmware */
+        const struct firmware *fw_entry;
+	printk("firmware_sample_driver: a ghost device got inserted :)\n");
+
+        if(request_firmware(&fw_entry, "sample_driver_fw", &ghost_device)!=0)
+	{
+		printk(KERN_ERR
+		       "firmware_sample_driver: Firmware not available\n");
+		return;
+	}
+	
+	sample_firmware_load(fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size);
+
+	release_firmware(fw_entry);
+
+	/* finish setting up the device */
+}
+static void sample_probe_specific(void)
+{
+	/* Uses some specific hotplug support to get the firmware from
+	 * userspace  directly into the hardware, or via some sysfs file */
+
+	/* NOTE: This currently doesn't work */
+
+	printk("firmware_sample_driver: a ghost device got inserted :)\n");
+
+        if(request_firmware(NULL, "sample_driver_fw", &ghost_device)!=0)
+	{
+		printk(KERN_ERR
+		       "firmware_sample_driver: Firmware load failed\n");
+		return;
+	}
+	
+	/* request_firmware blocks until userspace finished, so at
+	 * this point the firmware should be already in the device */
+
+	/* finish setting up the device */
+}
+static void sample_probe_async_cont(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)
+{
+	if(!fw){
+		printk(KERN_ERR
+		       "firmware_sample_driver: firmware load failed\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	printk("firmware_sample_driver: device pointer \"%s\"\n",
+	       (char *)context);
+	sample_firmware_load(fw->data, fw->size);
+}
+static void sample_probe_async(void)
+{
+	/* Let's say that I can't sleep */
+	int error;
+	error = request_firmware_nowait (THIS_MODULE,
+					 "sample_driver_fw", &ghost_device,
+					 "my device pointer",
+					 sample_probe_async_cont);
+	if(error){
+		printk(KERN_ERR 
+		       "firmware_sample_driver:"
+		       " request_firmware_nowait failed\n");
+	}
+}
+
+static int sample_init(void)
+{
+#ifdef WE_CAN_NEED_FIRMWARE_BEFORE_USERSPACE_IS_AVAILABLE
+	register_firmware("sample_driver_fw", inkernel_firmware,
+			  sizeof(inkernel_firmware));
+#endif
+	device_initialize(&ghost_device);
+	/* since there is no real hardware insertion I just call the
+	 * sample probe functions here */
+	sample_probe_specific();
+	sample_probe_default();
+	sample_probe_async();
+	return 0;
+}
+static void __exit sample_exit(void)
+{
+}
+
+module_init (sample_init);
+module_exit (sample_exit);
+
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");