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Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference 

The firmware loader has a fallback mechanism, and it now has some proper
kdoc, but we forgot to update the Documentation to use the new kdoc. Fix
that.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Luis R. Rodriguez 2018-06-06 14:38:47 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst
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@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ the loading file.
The firmware device used to help load firmware using sysfs is only created if
direct firmware loading fails and if the fallback mechanism is enabled for your
firmware request, this is set up with fw_load_from_user_helper(). It is
firmware request, this is set up with :c:func:`firmware_fallback_sysfs`. It is
important to re-iterate that no device is created if a direct filesystem lookup
succeeded.
@ -108,6 +108,11 @@ firmware_data_read() and firmware_loading_show() are just provided for the
test_firmware driver for testing, they are not called in normal use or
expected to be used regularly by userspace.
firmware_fallback_sysfs
-----------------------
.. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c
:functions: firmware_fallback_sysfs
Firmware kobject uevent fallback mechanism
==========================================