Hi, seen this a bit late..., one question:
On Friday 22 October 2010 16:43:55 Alan Cox wrote: > From: Sreedhara DS <[email protected]> > > This driver implements ioctl and interfaces with intel scu ipc driver. It > is used to access pmic/msic registers from user space and firmware update > utility. Why is an ioctl used for updating the firmware? Why isn't request_firmware(..) via: /lib/firmware/... used? Then the firmware could be maintained here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git;a=summary and no further userspace tools for firmware updating are needed. Thanks, Thomas > > Signed-off-by: Sreedhara DS <[email protected]> > [Extensive clean up and debug] > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <[email protected]> ... > +/** > + * scu_ipc_ioctl - control ioctls for the SCU > + * @fp: file handle of the SCU device > + * @cmd: ioctl coce > + * @arg: pointer to user passed structure > + * > + * Support the I/O and firmware flashing interfaces of the SCU > + */ > +static long scu_ipc_ioctl(struct file *fp, unsigned int cmd, > + unsigned long arg) > +{ > + int ret; > + struct scu_ipc_data data; > + void __user *argp = (void __user *)arg; > + > + if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO)) > + return -EPERM; > + > + if (cmd == INTE_SCU_IPC_FW_UPDATE) { > + u8 *fwbuf = kmalloc(MAX_FW_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); > + if (fwbuf == NULL) > + return -ENOMEM; > + if (copy_from_user(fwbuf, (u8 *)arg, MAX_FW_SIZE)) { > + kfree(fwbuf); > + return -EFAULT; > + } > + ret = intel_scu_ipc_fw_update(fwbuf, MAX_FW_SIZE); > + kfree(fwbuf); > + return ret; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
