Re: [PATCH] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes with firmware invalid error

[Andrew Lunn]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:45:59AM -0500, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:27:53AM +0100, Kory Maincent wrote:
> > No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content.
> > Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this
> > specific failure to the user-space
> > 
> > Expand the firmware error code with an additional code:
> > - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware
> >   is invalid
> > 
> > Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> > This patch was initially submitted as part of a net patch series.
> > Conor expressed interest in using it in a different subsystem.
> > Consequently, I extracted it from the series and submitted it separately
> > to the main tree, driver-core.
> > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231116-feature_poe-v1-7-be48044bf249@xxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> So you want me to take it through my tree?  Sure, but if you are relying
> on this for any other code, it will be a while before it gets into
> Linus's tree, not until 6.8-rc1, is that ok?

My idea was that you could create a stable branch, which can then be
pulled into netdev and arm-soc.

If you don't want to do that, we can ask Arnd to take it, and he can
create a stable branch which we pull into netdev.

       Andrew