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| author |   Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com> | 2020-07-03 00:11:07 +0200 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2020-07-03 09:27:05 +0200 |
| commit | 2fce60be06ca68b0b97b88b9ceb52ff102b0ea78 (patch) | |
| tree | 58903e2faa0b6f0471006cce0710fb4db2d58844 /drivers/base/firmware_loader | |
| parent | devres: handle zero size in devm_kmalloc() (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-2fce60be06ca68b0b97b88b9ceb52ff102b0ea78.tar.xz linux-dev-2fce60be06ca68b0b97b88b9ceb52ff102b0ea78.zip | |
firmware: improve description of firmware_request_nowarn
The doubled 'however' is confusing. Simplify the comment a little and
reformat the paragraph.
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200702221107.6562-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base/firmware_loader')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c index ca871b13524e..9da0c9d5f538 100644 --- a/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c +++ b/drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c @@ -838,12 +838,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(request_firmware); * @name: name of firmware file * @device: device for which firmware is being loaded * - * This function is similar in behaviour to request_firmware(), except - * it doesn't produce warning messages when the file is not found. - * The sysfs fallback mechanism is enabled if direct filesystem lookup fails, - * however, however failures to find the firmware file with it are still - * suppressed. It is therefore up to the driver to check for the return value - * of this call and to decide when to inform the users of errors. + * This function is similar in behaviour to request_firmware(), except it + * doesn't produce warning messages when the file is not found. The sysfs + * fallback mechanism is enabled if direct filesystem lookup fails. However, + * failures to find the firmware file with it are still suppressed. It is + * therefore up to the driver to check for the return value of this call and to + * decide when to inform the users of errors. **/ int firmware_request_nowarn(const struct firmware **firmware, const char *name, struct device *device) |