Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Nov 2023 14:48:32 -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 03:06:44PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:45:59AM -0500, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > 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? > > My idea was that you could create a stable branch, which can then be > pulled into netdev and arm-soc.
I'll be glad to do so, you just need to ask me to do that, I don't see that request here :)
> If you don't want to do that, we can ask Arnd to take it, and he can > create a stable branch which we pull into netdev.
You want a stable tag to pull from, right?
But really, why not just take this through netdev? It's just one commit, I have no problem with it going that way at all. If the odd chance there's a merge conflict in the future, I can handle it.
thanks,
greg k-h
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