[PATCH v4 1/3] bus: mhi: host: allow MHI client drivers to provide the firmware via a pointer

[Kalle Valo]

Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani at kernel.org> writes:

> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 01:04:28PM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> From: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>
>> 
>> Currently MHI loads the firmware image from the path provided by client
>> devices. ath11k needs to support firmware image embedded along with meta data
>> (named as firmware-2.bin). So allow the client driver to request the firmware
>> file from user space on it's own and provide the firmware image data and size
>> to MHI via a pointer struct mhi_controller::fw_data.
>> 
>> This is an optional feature, if fw_data is NULL MHI load the firmware using the
>> name from struct mhi_controller::fw_image string as before.
>> 
>> Tested with ath11k and WCN6855 hw2.0.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <quic_kvalo at quicinc.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Manivannan Sadhasivam <mani at kernel.org>
>
> I can apply this for 6.6 and then you can merge ath11k changes for
> 6.7.

Yeah, to keep things simple please apply patch 1 for v6.6. Then I'll
apply patches 2-3 for v6.7 (after fixing Jeff's findings).

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