- Add a new function linker_release_module() as a more intuitive complement
to linker_reference_module() that wraps linker_file_unload().
linker_release_module() can either take the module name and version info
passed to linker_reference_module() or it can accept the linker file
object returned by linker_reference_module().
with firmware_unregister(). Previously when the last driver reference
had been dropped we would clear the list entry under the assumption
that the firmware module was about to be unloaded, but this was not
true if the firmware image had been loaded manually with kldload.
This makes it possible to manually kldload firmware images as a
workaround for drivers such as ipw that attempt to load firmware
while resuming after a suspend.
Reviewed by: mlaier (an earlier version of the patch)
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
