Re: [PATCH 1/2] request_firmware without a device

[Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 21:01 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:50:45AM +0800, Shaohua Li wrote:
> > The patch allows calling request_firmware without a 'struct device'.
> > It appears we just need a name here from 'struct device'. I changed it
> > to use a kobject as Patrick suggested.
> > Next patch will use the new API to request firmware (microcode) for a CPU.
> 
> But a cpu does have a struct device.  Why not just use that?
It's a sysdev, no 'struct device' in it, IIRC.

> > +fw_setup_class_device_id(struct class_device *class_dev, struct kobject *kobj)
> >  {
> >  	/* XXX warning we should watch out for name collisions */
> > -	strlcpy(class_dev->class_id, dev->bus_id, BUS_ID_SIZE);
> > +	strlcpy(class_dev->class_id, kobj->k_name, BUS_ID_SIZE);
> 
> There's a function for this, kobject_name(), please never touch k_name
> directly.
Ok, will do.

> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(request_firmware_kobj);
> 
> Ick, if you really want to do this, just fix up all callers of
> request_firmware(), there aren't that many of them.
> 
> But I don't recommend it anyway.
I didn't see why we need a 'struct device' for request_firmware. It just
needs a name to me.

Thanks,
Shaohua