Re: [PATCH v2 4/5] firmware: actually return NULL on failed request_firmware_nowait()

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On 12/09/2015 03:50 PM, Brian Norris wrote:
> The kerneldoc for request_firmware_nowait() says that it may call the
> provided cont() callback with @fw == NULL, if the firmware request
> fails. However, this is not the case when called with an empty string
> (""). This case is short-circuited by the 'name[0] == '\0'' check
> introduced in commit 471b095dfe0d ("firmware_class: make sure fw requests
> contain a name"), so _request_firmware() never gets to set the fw to
> NULL.
> 

Thanks for the patch. Applied to linux-kselftest next for 4.5-rc1.

thanks,
-- Shuah
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Samsung Research America (Silicon Valley)
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