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2008-07-10ihex: request_ihex_firmware() function to load and validate firmwareDavid Woodhouse
Provide a helper to load the file and validate it in one call, to simplify error handling in the drivers which are going to use it. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
2008-07-10ihex.h: binary representation of ihex recordsDavid Woodhouse
Some devices need their firmware as a set of {address, len, data...} records in some specific order rather than a simple blob. The normal way of doing this kind of thing is 'ihex', which is a text format and not entirely suitable for use in the kernel. This provides a binary representation which is very similar, but much more compact -- and a helper routine to skip to the next record, because the alignment constraints mean that everybody will screw it up for themselves otherwise. Also a helper function which can verify that a 'struct firmware' contains a valid set of ihex records, and that following them won't run off the end of the loaded data. Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>