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authorsam <sam@FreeBSD.org>2008-08-02 17:51:38 +0000
committersam <sam@FreeBSD.org>2008-08-02 17:51:38 +0000
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Try to fixup last (inadvertent) commit: firmware_drain was never added so
yank it's description; likewise for the FIRMWARE_WAIT flag to firmware_put. For the record, the last commit was to cleanup various mistakes and correct the example of embedding to reflect the npe firmware now being distributed with the system.
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diff --git a/share/man/man9/firmware.9 b/share/man/man9/firmware.9
index e010159..87d43e3 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/firmware.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/firmware.9
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 18, 2008
+.Dd August 2, 2008
.Os
.Dt FIRMWARE 9
.Sh NAME
@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@
.Nm firmware_unregister ,
.Nm firmware_get ,
.Nm firmware_put
-.Nm firmware_drain
.Nd firmware image loading and management
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/param.h
@@ -60,8 +59,6 @@ struct firmware {
.Fn firmware_get "const char *imagename"
.Ft void
.Fn firmware_put "const struct firmware *fp" "int flags"
-.Ft void
-.Fn firmware_drain "void"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm firmware
@@ -164,17 +161,6 @@ By default a firmware image will be deferred to a
.Xr taskqueue 9
thread so the call may be done while holding a lock.
In certain cases, such as on driver detach, this cannot be allowed.
-If the
-.Dv FIRMWARE_WAIT
-flag is or'd into
-.Fa flags
-then
-.Fn firmware_put
-will wait for the asynchronous operation to complete.
-This can also be accomplished by calling the
-.Fn firmware_drain
-routine after
-.Fn firmware_put .
.Sh FIRMWARE LOADING MECHANISMS
As mentioned before, any component of the system can register
firmware images at any time by simply calling
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