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Date:   Wed, 29 Jul 2020 08:22:17 +0200
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From:   Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 18/19] firmware: Add request_partial_firmware_into_buf()
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On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 03:17:39 +0200,
Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> 
> Long ago Takashi had some points about this strategy breaking
> compressed file use. Was that considered?

As long as I read the patch, it tries to skip both the compressed and
the fallback loading when FW_OPT_PARTIAL is set, which is good.

However...

> > @@ -771,18 +805,20 @@ _request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name,
> >  	}
> >  
> >  	ret = _request_firmware_prepare(&fw, name, device, buf, size,
> > -					opt_flags);
> > +					offset, opt_flags);
> >  	if (ret <= 0) /* error or already assigned */
> >  		goto out;
> >  
> >  	ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, "", NULL);
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS
> > -	if (ret == -ENOENT)
> > +
> > +	/* Only full reads can support decompression, platform, and sysfs. */
> > +	if (!(opt_flags & FW_OPT_PARTIAL))
> > +		nondirect = true;
> > +
> > +	if (ret == -ENOENT && nondirect)
> >  		ret = fw_get_filesystem_firmware(device, fw->priv, ".xz",
> >  						 fw_decompress_xz);
> > -#endif

... by dropping this ifdef, the fw loader would try to access *.xz
file unnecessarily even if CONFIG_FW_LOADER_COMPRESS is disabled.


thanks,

Takashi