With the upcoming usage from LinuxKPI but also from drivers
ported natively we are seeing more probing of various
firmware (names).
Add the ability to firmware(9) to silence the
"firmware image loading/registering errors" by adding a new
firmware_get_flags() functions extending firmware_get() and
taking a flags argument as firmware_put() already does.
Requested-by: zeising (for future LinuxKPI/DRM)
Sponsored-by: The FreeBSD Foundation
Sponsored-by: Rubicon Communications, LLC ("Netgate")
MFC after: 3 days
Reviewed-by: markj
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D27413
Although groff_mdoc(7) gives another impression, this is the ordering
most widely used and also required by mdocml/mandoc.
Reviewed by: ru
Approved by: philip, ed (mentors)
yank it's description; likewise for the FIRMWARE_WAIT flag to firmware_put.
For the record, the last commit was to cleanup various mistakes and correct
the example of embedding to reflect the npe firmware now being distributed
with the system.
Apart from minor cleanup of the text, it should document
in reasonable detail what the status of the code is.
RELENG_6 has some minor differences there in the way automatic
loading/unloading is handled, but hopefully this should be
fixed by MFC time.
The examples come from Max Laier and Sam Leffler.
MFC after: 1 week
specially crafted module. There are several handrolled sollutions to this
problem in the tree already which will be replaced with this. They include
iwi(4), ipw(4), ispfw(4) and digi(4).
No objection from: arch
MFC after: 2 weeks
X-MFC after: some drivers have been converted
