[PATCH] modified firmware_class.c to support no hotplug

Upgrade the request_firmware_nowait function to not start the hotplug
action on a firmware update.

This patch is tested along with dell_rbu driver on i386 and x86-64 systems.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/firmware.h b/include/linux/firmware.h
index 886255b69bb9..2063c0839d4f 100644
--- a/include/linux/firmware.h
+++ b/include/linux/firmware.h
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 #include <linux/module.h>
 #include <linux/types.h>
 #define FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX 30 
+#define FW_ACTION_NOHOTPLUG 0
+#define FW_ACTION_HOTPLUG 1
+
 struct firmware {
         size_t size;
         u8 *data;
@@ -11,7 +14,7 @@ struct device;
 int request_firmware(const struct firmware **fw, const char *name,
                      struct device *device);
 int request_firmware_nowait(
-        struct module *module,
+        struct module *module, int hotplug,
         const char *name, struct device *device, void *context,
         void (*cont)(const struct firmware *fw, void *context));