linux/include
Takashi Iwai bba3a87e98 firmware: Introduce request_firmware_direct()
When CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER is set, request_firmware() falls
back to the usermode helper for loading via udev when the direct
loading fails.  But the recent udev takes way too long timeout (60
seconds) for non-existing firmware.  This is unacceptable for the
drivers like microcode loader where they load firmwares optionally,
i.e. it's no error even if no requested file exists.

This patch provides a new helper function, request_firmware_direct().
It behaves as same as request_firmware() except for that it doesn't
fall back to usermode helper but returns an error immediately if the
f/w can't be loaded directly in kernel.

Without CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER=y, request_firmware_direct() is
just an alias of request_firmware(), due to obvious reason.

Tested-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2013-12-08 18:22:32 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'acpica' 2013-11-27 01:03:27 +01:00
asm-generic Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-11-23 16:18:25 -08:00
clocksource drivers: clocksource: add support for ARM architected timer event stream 2013-09-26 09:48:00 +01:00
crypto Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2013-11-23 16:18:25 -08:00
drm Merge branch 'ttm-fixes-3.13' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/linux into drm-fixes 2013-11-21 18:46:56 +10:00
dt-bindings For the 3.13 merge window we have a couple of new drivers for the AMS 2013-11-15 16:37:40 -08:00
keys KEYS: Separate the kernel signature checking keyring from module signing 2013-09-25 17:17:01 +01:00
kvm ARM: KVM: vgic: Bump VGIC_NR_IRQS to 256 2013-08-30 16:12:39 +03:00
linux firmware: Introduce request_firmware_direct() 2013-12-08 18:22:32 -08:00
math-emu math-emu: correct test for downshifting fraction in _FP_FROM_INT() 2010-07-20 18:45:14 -07:00
media Merge branch 'i2c/for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux 2013-11-18 15:50:07 -08:00
memory ddr: add LPDDR2 data from JESD209-2 2012-05-02 00:04:06 -07:00
misc [media] altera-stapl: it is time to move out from staging 2011-09-23 15:00:57 -03:00
net genetlink: fix genl_set_err() group ID 2013-11-21 13:09:43 -05:00
pcmcia pcmcia/ds.h: introduce helper for pcmcia_driver module boilerplate 2013-03-15 12:26:03 -07:00
ras edac: add support for error type "Info" 2013-02-21 14:16:27 -03:00
rdma Merge branches 'cma', 'cxgb4', 'flowsteer', 'ipoib', 'misc', 'mlx4', 'mlx5', 'nes', 'ocrdma', 'qib' and 'srp' into for-next 2013-11-17 08:22:19 -08:00
rxrpc atomic: use <linux/atomic.h> 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
scsi Main batch of InfiniBand/RDMA changes for 3.13: 2013-11-18 15:36:04 -08:00
sound Merge remote-tracking branch 'asoc/topic/twl4030' into asoc-next 2013-11-08 10:43:40 +00:00
target target_core_alua: Store supported ALUA states 2013-11-20 11:26:37 -08:00
trace tracing: Allow events to have NULL strings 2013-11-26 10:34:46 -05:00
uapi Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux 2013-11-22 10:56:11 -08:00
video fbdev changes for 3.13 2013-11-14 14:44:20 +09:00
xen Features: 2013-11-15 13:34:37 +09:00
Kbuild UAPI: remove empty Kbuild files 2013-04-30 17:04:09 -07:00