Re: [PATCH] firmware_loader: Expand Firmware upload error codes with firmware invalid error

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 03:06:44PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 08:45:59AM -0500, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 17, 2023 at 11:27:53AM +0100, Kory Maincent wrote:
> > > No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content.
> > > Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this
> > > specific failure to the user-space
> > > 
> > > Expand the firmware error code with an additional code:
> > > - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware
> > >   is invalid
> > > 
> > > Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
> > > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@bootlin.com>
> > > ---
> > > 
> > > This patch was initially submitted as part of a net patch series.
> > > Conor expressed interest in using it in a different subsystem.
> > > Consequently, I extracted it from the series and submitted it separately
> > > to the main tree, driver-core.
> > > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20231116-feature_poe-v1-7-be48044bf249@bootlin.com/
> > 
> > So you want me to take it through my tree?  Sure, but if you are relying
> > on this for any other code, it will be a while before it gets into
> > Linus's tree, not until 6.8-rc1, is that ok?
> 
> My idea was that you could create a stable branch, which can then be
> pulled into netdev and arm-soc.

I'll be glad to do so, you just need to ask me to do that, I don't see
that request here :)

> If you don't want to do that, we can ask Arnd to take it, and he can
> create a stable branch which we pull into netdev.

You want a stable tag to pull from, right?

But really, why not just take this through netdev?  It's just one
commit, I have no problem with it going that way at all.  If the odd
chance there's a merge conflict in the future, I can handle it.

thanks,

greg k-h