Re: [PATCH 2/7] firmware: add offset to request_firmware_into_buf

On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 21:24:46 +0200, Scott Branden wrote:

Add offset to request_firmware_into_buf to allow for portions of firmware file to be read into a buffer. Necessary where firmware needs to be loaded in portions from file in memory constrained systems.

AFAIU, this won't work with the fallback user helper, right? Also it won't work for the compressed firmware files as-is.

So this new API usage is for the limited use cases, hence it needs such checks and returns error/warns if the condition isn't met.

IOW, this can't be a simple extension of request_firmware_into_buf() to pass a new flag.

thanks,

Takashi