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staging: vt6656: Keep firmware loading local and release firware.
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Firmware is retained unreleased for the entire duration of the
driver.

When done release firmware and if the need be request firmware again.

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Malcolm Priestley authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Oct 22, 2012
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion drivers/staging/vt6656/device.h
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Expand Up @@ -418,7 +418,6 @@ typedef struct __device_info {
struct net_device* dev;
struct net_device_stats stats;

const struct firmware *firmware;

OPTIONS sOpts;

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22 changes: 10 additions & 12 deletions drivers/staging/vt6656/firmware.c
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Expand Up @@ -61,28 +61,24 @@ FIRMWAREbDownload(
PSDevice pDevice
)
{
struct device *dev = &pDevice->usb->dev;
const struct firmware *fw;
int NdisStatus;
void *pBuffer = NULL;
BOOL result = FALSE;
u16 wLength;
int ii;
int ii, rc;


DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG, KERN_INFO"---->Download firmware\n");
spin_unlock_irq(&pDevice->lock);

if (!pDevice->firmware) {
struct device *dev = &pDevice->usb->dev;
int rc;

rc = request_firmware(&pDevice->firmware, FIRMWARE_NAME, dev);
if (rc) {
dev_err(dev, "firmware file %s request failed (%d)\n",
FIRMWARE_NAME, rc);
rc = request_firmware(&fw, FIRMWARE_NAME, dev);
if (rc) {
dev_err(dev, "firmware file %s request failed (%d)\n",
FIRMWARE_NAME, rc);
goto out;
}
}
fw = pDevice->firmware;

pBuffer = kmalloc(FIRMWARE_CHUNK_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!pBuffer)
Expand All @@ -103,10 +99,12 @@ FIRMWAREbDownload(
DBG_PRT(MSG_LEVEL_DEBUG,
KERN_INFO"Download firmware...%d %zu\n", ii, fw->size);
if (NdisStatus != STATUS_SUCCESS)
goto out;
goto free_fw;
}

result = TRUE;
free_fw:
release_firmware(fw);

out:
kfree(pBuffer);
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion drivers/staging/vt6656/main_usb.c
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Expand Up @@ -1219,7 +1219,6 @@ static void __devexit vt6656_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
}

device_release_WPADEV(device);
release_firmware(device->firmware);

usb_set_intfdata(intf, NULL);
usb_put_dev(interface_to_usbdev(intf));
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