Re: [PATCH] cx25840: Declare MODULE_FIRMWARE usage

From: Tim Gardner
Date: Fri Jul 27 2012 - 08:06:49 EST


On 07/26/2012 03:59 PM, Andy Walls wrote:
On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 10:44 -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-media@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c b/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c
index 8150200..b3169f9 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-firmware.c
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ static void end_fw_load(struct i2c_client *client)
cx25840_write(client, 0x803, 0x03);
}

+#define CX2388x_FIRMWARE "v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw"
+#define CX231xx_FIRMWARE "v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw"
+#define CX25840_FIRMWARE "v4l-cx25840.fw"
+
static const char *get_fw_name(struct i2c_client *client)
{
struct cx25840_state *state = to_state(i2c_get_clientdata(client));
@@ -68,10 +72,10 @@ static const char *get_fw_name(struct i2c_client *client)
if (firmware[0])
return firmware;
if (is_cx2388x(state))
- return "v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw";
+ return CX2388x_FIRMWARE;
if (is_cx231xx(state))
- return "v4l-cx231xx-avcore-01.fw";
- return "v4l-cx25840.fw";
+ return CX231xx_FIRMWARE;
+ return CX25840_FIRMWARE;
}

static int check_fw_load(struct i2c_client *client, int size)
@@ -164,3 +168,8 @@ int cx25840_loadfw(struct i2c_client *client)

return check_fw_load(client, size);
}
+
+MODULE_FIRMWARE(CX2388x_FIRMWARE);
+MODULE_FIRMWARE(CX231xx_FIRMWARE);
+MODULE_FIRMWARE(CX25840_FIRMWARE);
+

How will the firmware attribute in the .module_info section be used?

For any one model of TV capture device, the cx25840 only needs one of
the above firmware files. The others need not exist.

I would not want anything in user or kernel space to refuse to load the
module just because all 3 firmware files are not present.

Regards,
Andy


The MODULE_FIRMWARE macro is purely informational. Declaring the firmware files that the driver _might_ use helps me pare down the external firmware package to just those files that I know it must have. This patch will have no runtime impact.

Note that there are plenty of uses of the MODULE_FIRMWARE macro within the kernel.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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