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authorLuis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>2018-05-10 23:08:48 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2018-05-14 17:44:41 +0300
commit4fde24d4161358e0909684facd2226627d381fce (patch)
treeac3cad1b1661e58ce337a2978e86dff3754d3b62 /Documentation/driver-api/firmware
parent1bc4d68b06ab913d392c8ad6481b9729bd58b8d5 (diff)
downloadlinux-4fde24d4161358e0909684facd2226627d381fce.tar.xz
Documentation: fix few typos and clarifications for the firmware loader
Fix a few typos, and clarify a few sentences. Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/firmware')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst5
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst4
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst
index f353783ae0be..a39323ef7d29 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ and a file upload firmware into:
* /sys/$DEVPATH/data
To upload firmware you will echo 1 onto the loading file to indicate
-you are loading firmware. You then cat the firmware into the data file,
+you are loading firmware. You then write the firmware into the data file,
and you notify the kernel the firmware is ready by echo'ing 0 onto
the loading file.
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ by kobject uevents. This is specially exacerbated due to the fact that most
distributions today disable CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER_FALLBACK.
Refer to do_firmware_uevent() for details of the kobject event variables
-setup. Variables passwdd with a kobject add event:
+setup. The variables currently passed to userspace with a "kobject add"
+event are:
* FIRMWARE=firmware name
* TIMEOUT=timeout value
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst
index 2210e5bfb332..c2e69d9c6bf1 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/firmware/firmware_cache.rst
@@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ Some implementation details about the firmware cache setup:
* If an asynchronous call is used the firmware cache is only set up for a
device if if the second argument (uevent) to request_firmware_nowait() is
true. When uevent is true it requests that a kobject uevent be sent to
- userspace for the firmware request. For details refer to the Fackback
- mechanism documented below.
+ userspace for the firmware request through the sysfs fallback mechanism
+ if the firmware file is not found.
* If the firmware cache is determined to be needed as per the above two
criteria the firmware cache is setup by adding a devres entry for the