Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 00:35:08 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
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> To make the firmware caching easier I would propose one extra function
> in addition to the aforemensioned get_firmware / put_firmware - a
> find_firmware function to search the cache and return the appropriate
> firmware blob. 

If the caller has a recount they have a pointer. If the caller can't work
out how to assign a 32bit value to a field in a struct please get them to
work on something less important than kernel code.

Alan