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| author | Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org> | 2018-05-10 13:08:48 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-05-14 16:44:41 +0200 |
| commit | 4fde24d4161358e0909684facd2226627d381fce (patch) | |
| tree | ac3cad1b1661e58ce337a2978e86dff3754d3b62 /Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst | |
| parent | 1bc4d68b06ab913d392c8ad6481b9729bd58b8d5 (diff) | |
| download | linux-4fde24d4161358e0909684facd2226627d381fce.tar.bz2 | |
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/fallback-mechanisms.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 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 |