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authorJon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>2006-08-28 17:08:21 -0500
committerJames Bottomley <jejb@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com>2006-08-30 10:47:27 -0400
commit187afbed1814ea0851bf30bacbf807217dd7864b (patch)
tree3e60ca1e1edf5feac14bbad0ba0fe087a6229853 /include
parent2908d778ab3e244900c310974e1fc1c69066e450 (diff)
[SCSI] MODULE_FIRMWARE for binary firmware(s)
Right now, various kernel modules are being migrated over to use request_firmware in order to pull in binary firmware blobs from userland when the module is loaded. This makes sense. However, there is right now little mechanism in place to automatically determine which binary firmware blobs must be included with a kernel in order to satisfy the prerequisites of these drivers. This affects vendors, but also regular users to a certain extent too. The attached patch introduces MODULE_FIRMWARE as a mechanism for advertising that a particular firmware file is to be loaded - it will then show up via modinfo and could be used e.g. when packaging a kernel. Signed-off-by: Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com> Comments added in line with all the other MODULE_ tag Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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-rw-r--r--include/linux/module.h5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/module.h b/include/linux/module.h
index 0dfb794c52d3..d4486cc2e7fe 100644
--- a/include/linux/module.h
+++ b/include/linux/module.h
@@ -156,6 +156,11 @@ extern struct module __this_module;
*/
#define MODULE_VERSION(_version) MODULE_INFO(version, _version)
+/* Optional firmware file (or files) needed by the module
+ * format is simply firmware file name. Multiple firmware
+ * files require multiple MODULE_FIRMWARE() specifiers */
+#define MODULE_FIRMWARE(_firmware) MODULE_INFO(firmware, _firmware)
+
/* Given an address, look for it in the exception tables */
const struct exception_table_entry *search_exception_tables(unsigned long add);