Re: [PATCH] docs: driver-api: firmware_loader: fix missing argument in usage example

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Mar 29 2023 - 10:10:46 EST


On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 01:34:26PM +0100, Conor Dooley wrote:
> By the time firmware-upload support landed in commit 97730bbb242c
> ("firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support"), the arguments for
> firmware_upload_register() had changed, and while this is automagically
> represented in the kernel doc bits, the usage example was not kept in
> sync.
> Add the missing argument as per the driver.
>
> Fixes: 97730bbb242c ("firmware_loader: Add firmware-upload support")
> Signed-off-by: Conor Dooley <conor.dooley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> >From skimming the threads adding this stuff, looks like THIS_MODULE was
> always needed, so either I'm missing something or the doc stuff wasn't
> matching in any of the submitted versions.
>
> CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> CC: Russ Weight <russell.h.weight@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Tianfei zhang <tianfei.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> CC: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fw_upload.rst | 3 ++-
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fw_upload.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fw_upload.rst
> index 76922591e446..edf1d0c5e7c3 100644
> --- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fw_upload.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fw_upload.rst
> @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ function calls firmware_upload_unregister() such as::
> len = (truncate) ? truncate - fw_name : strlen(fw_name);
> sec->fw_name = kmemdup_nul(fw_name, len, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> - fwl = firmware_upload_register(sec->dev, sec->fw_name, &m10bmc_ops, sec);
> + fwl = firmware_upload_register(THIS_MODULE, sec->dev, sec->fw_name,
> + &m10bmc_ops, sec);

Good catch. As this touches the firmware documentation, I can take it
in my tree, thanks!

greg k-h