On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 03:01:39PM +0100, Kory Maincent wrote: > No error code are available to signal an invalid firmware content. > Drivers that can check the firmware content validity can not return this > specific failure to the user-space > > Expand the firmware error code with an additional code: > - "firmware invalid" code which can be used when the provided firmware > is invalid > > Signed-off-by: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@xxxxxxxxxxx> This would be rather helpful to me for some stuff that I am currently working on and was hoping to send to Arnd for inclusion in 6.8: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20231020-series-uncooked-077b107af3ae@spud/ I'm currently returning a "HW_ERROR" for something that this would fit the bill for (in mpfs_auto_update_write()). What would the ETA for this stuff landing via the net tree be? Since I am not a netdev contributor its hard to tell how controversial these patches are! Cheers, Conor.
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