Extend the firmware subsystem to support a persistent sysfs interface that
userspace may use to initiate a firmware update. For example, FPGA based
PCIe cards load firmware and FPGA images from local FLASH when the card
boots. The images in FLASH may be updated with new images provided by the
user at his/her convenience.
A device driver may call firmware_upload_register() to expose persistent
"loading" and "data" sysfs files. These files are used in the same way as
the fallback sysfs "loading" and "data" files. When 0 is written to
"loading" to complete the write of firmware data, the data is transferred
to the lower-level driver using pre-registered call-back functions. The
data transfer is done in the context of a kernel worker thread.
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tianfei zhang <tianfei.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212204.36052-5-russell.h.weight@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
In preparation for sharing the "loading" and "data" sysfs nodes with the
new firmware upload support, split out sysfs functionality from fallback.c
and fallback.h into sysfs.c and sysfs.h. This includes the firmware
class driver code that is associated with the sysfs files and the
fw_fallback_config support for the timeout sysfs node.
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_SYSFS is created and is selected by
CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER in order to include sysfs.o in
firmware_class-objs.
This is mostly just a code reorganization. There are a few symbols that
change in scope, and these can be identified by looking at the header
file changes. A few white-space warnings from checkpatch are also
addressed in this patch.
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Tianfei zhang <tianfei.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Matthew Gerlach <matthew.gerlach@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@intel.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212204.36052-4-russell.h.weight@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
