Linux 固件firmware_Linux内核

1.相关函数 
int request_firmware_nowait( 
    struct module *module, bool uevent, 
    const char *name, 
    struct device *device, 
    gfp_t gfp, 
    void *context, /*驱动自己可以向回调函数传递一个参数，一般指向驱动设备结构体*/ 
    void (*cont)(const struct firmware *fw, void *context)) /*失败时传入的fw=NULL*/ 
 
int request_firmware(const struct firmware **firmware_p, const char *name, struct device *device) 
 
void release_firmware(const struct firmware *fw)

request_firmware_nowait 
    INIT_WORK(&fw_work->work, request_firmware_work_func); schedule_work(&fw_work->work); 这就是异步的实现方法，queue到内核线程中去执行 
        fw_get_filesystem_firmware 
            kernel_read_file_from_path 
                file = filp_open(path, O_RDONLY, 0); 
                kernel_read_file(file, buf, size, max_size, id);

/* direct firmware loading support */ 
static char fw_path_para[256]; 
static const char * const fw_path[] = { /* 固件查找路径 */ 
    fw_path_para,                       /* 模块参数，可作为启动参数 */ 
    "/lib/firmware/updates/" UTS_RELEASE, 
    "/lib/firmware/updates", 
    "/lib/firmware/" UTS_RELEASE, 
    "/lib/firmware" 
}; 
module_param_string(path, fw_path_para, sizeof(fw_path_para), 0644);  /*这个还做为模块参数供用户配置*/ 
MODULE_PARM_DESC(path, "customized firmware image search path with a higher priority than default path");

struct firmware { 
    size_t size; 
    const u8 *data;        /*data里面存的直接是打卡固件里面的数据*/ 
    struct page **pages; 
 
    /* firmware loader private fields */ 
    void *priv; /*_request_firmware_prepare中指向struct firmware_buf *buf， 若驱动App这里指定为null,内核分配的buff就存在这里*/ 
};

error = request_firmware_nowait(THIS_MODULE, true, "maxtouch.cfg", &client->dev, GFP_KERNEL, data, mxt_config_cb); 
 
mxt_config_cb(const struct firmware *cfg, void *ctx) 
{ 
    printk(KERN_INFO"sfl: size=%d, content=%s\n", cfg->size, buff); 
} 
 
# mkdir -p /lib/firmware/updates 
# touch /lib/firmware/updates/maxtouch.cfg 
# ehco abcdefghijklmnopqrst > /lib/firmware/updates/maxtouch.cfg 
 
打印： 
sfl: size=21, content=abcdefghijklmnopqrst