Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2023 08:45:59 -0500 | From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes with firmware invalid error |
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:27:53AM +0100, Kory Maincent wrote: > No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content. > Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this > specific failure to the user-space > > Expand the firmware error code with an additional code: > - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware > is invalid > > Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com> > --- > > This patch was initially submitted as part of a net patch series. > Conor expressed interest in using it in a different subsystem. > Consequently, I extracted it from the series and submitted it separately > to the main tree, driver-core. > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231116-feature_poe-v1-7-be48044bf249@bootlin.com/
So you want me to take it through my tree? Sure, but if you are relying on this for any other code, it will be a while before it gets into Linus's tree, not until 6.8-rc1, is that ok?
thanks,
greg k-h
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