linux/drivers/staging
Johannes Berg 9ebfbd45f9 firmware_class: make request_firmware_nowait more useful
Unfortunately, one cannot hold on to the struct firmware
that request_firmware_nowait() hands off, which is needed
in some cases. Allow this by requiring the callback to
free it (via release_firmware).

Additionally, give it a gfp_t parameter -- all the current
users call it from a GFP_KERNEL context so the GFP_ATOMIC
isn't necessary. This also marks an API break which is
useful in a sense, although that is obviously not the
primary purpose of this change.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Ming Lei <tom.leiming@gmail.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Cc: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-12-11 11:24:52 -08:00
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altpciechdma
android
arlan Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2009-12-08 07:55:01 -08:00
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comedi firmware_class: make request_firmware_nowait more useful 2009-12-11 11:24:52 -08:00
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go7007 V4L/DVB (13458): go7007: subdev conversion 2009-12-05 18:42:18 -02:00
hv Staging: hv: Fix some missing author names 2009-11-30 16:39:35 -08:00
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netwave Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-12-05 15:22:26 -08:00
octeon Staging: octeon-ethernet: Assign proper MAC addresses. 2009-11-23 18:55:34 +00:00
otus tree-wide: fix misspelling of "definition" in comments 2009-12-04 23:41:47 +01:00
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pohmelfs writeback: remove unused nonblocking and congestion checks 2009-12-03 13:54:25 +01:00
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