Commit 2fce60be authored by Wolfram Sang's avatar Wolfram Sang Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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firmware: improve description of firmware_request_nowarn 



The doubled 'however' is confusing. Simplify the comment a little and
reformat the paragraph.

Signed-off-by: default avatarWolfram Sang <wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com>
Acked-by: default avatarLuis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200702221107.6562-1-wsa+renesas@sang-engineering.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent cad064f1

drivers/base/firmware_loader/main.c

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@@ -838,12 +838,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(request_firmware); 
 * @name: name of firmware file

 * @device: device for which firmware is being loaded

 *

 * This function is similar in behaviour to request_firmware(), except

 * it doesn't produce warning messages when the file is not found.

 * The sysfs fallback mechanism is enabled if direct filesystem lookup fails,

 * however, however failures to find the firmware file with it are still

 * suppressed. It is therefore up to the driver to check for the return value

 * of this call and to decide when to inform the users of errors.

 * This function is similar in behaviour to request_firmware(), except it

 * doesn't produce warning messages when the file is not found. The sysfs

 * fallback mechanism is enabled if direct filesystem lookup fails. However,

 * failures to find the firmware file with it are still suppressed. It is

 * therefore up to the driver to check for the return value of this call and to

 * decide when to inform the users of errors.

 **/

int firmware_request_nowarn(const struct firmware **firmware, const char *name,

			    struct device *device)

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