staging: comedi: drivers: generalize comedi_load_firmware()

Move comedi_load_firmware() from jr3_pci.c to drivers.c and export
it for general use by the comedi drivers.

Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
index 216ba443ee61..12f1974f2c81 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
 #include <linux/dma-mapping.h>
 #include <linux/io.h>
 #include <linux/interrupt.h>
+#include <linux/firmware.h>
 
 #include "comedidev.h"
 #include "comedi_internal.h"
@@ -347,6 +348,35 @@ static void comedi_report_boards(struct comedi_driver *driv)
 }
 
 /**
+ * comedi_load_firmware() - Request and load firmware for a device.
+ * @dev: comedi_device struct
+ * @hw_device: device struct for the comedi_device
+ * @name: the name of the firmware image
+ * @cb: callback to the upload the firmware image
+ */
+int comedi_load_firmware(struct comedi_device *dev,
+			 struct device *device,
+			 const char *name,
+			 int (*cb)(struct comedi_device *dev,
+				   const u8 *data, size_t size))
+{
+	const struct firmware *fw;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!cb)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
+	ret = request_firmware(&fw, name, device);
+	if (ret == 0) {
+		ret = cb(dev, fw->data, fw->size);
+		release_firmware(fw);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(comedi_load_firmware);
+
+/**
  * __comedi_request_region() - Request an I/O reqion for a legacy driver.
  * @dev: comedi_device struct
  * @start: base address of the I/O reqion