Merge tag 'v3.7-rc1' into staging/for_v3.8

Linux 3.7-rc1

* tag 'v3.7-rc1': (9579 commits)
  Linux 3.7-rc1
  x86, boot: Explicitly include autoconf.h for hostprogs
  perf: Fix UAPI fallout
  ARM: config: make sure that platforms are ordered by option string
  ARM: config: sort select statements alphanumerically
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux/byteorder
  UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate include/linux
  UAPI: Unexport linux/blk_types.h
  UAPI: Unexport part of linux/ppp-comp.h
  perf: Handle new rbtree implementation
  procfs: don't need a PATH_MAX allocation to hold a string representation of an int
  vfs: embed struct filename inside of names_cache allocation if possible
  audit: make audit_inode take struct filename
  vfs: make path_openat take a struct filename pointer
  vfs: turn do_path_lookup into wrapper around struct filename variant
  audit: allow audit code to satisfy getname requests from its names_list
  vfs: define struct filename and have getname() return it
  btrfs: Fix compilation with user namespace support enabled
  userns: Fix posix_acl_file_xattr_userns gid conversion
  userns: Properly print bluetooth socket uids
  ...

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/firmware.h b/include/linux/firmware.h
index 1e7c01189fa..e4279fedb93 100644
--- a/include/linux/firmware.h
+++ b/include/linux/firmware.h
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ struct firmware {
 	size_t size;
 	const u8 *data;
 	struct page **pages;
+
+	/* firmware loader private fields */
+	void *priv;
 };
 
 struct module;
@@ -44,6 +47,8 @@ int request_firmware_nowait(
 	void (*cont)(const struct firmware *fw, void *context));
 
 void release_firmware(const struct firmware *fw);
+int cache_firmware(const char *name);
+int uncache_firmware(const char *name);
 #else
 static inline int request_firmware(const struct firmware **fw,
 				   const char *name,
@@ -62,6 +67,16 @@ static inline int request_firmware_nowait(
 static inline void release_firmware(const struct firmware *fw)
 {
 }
+
+static inline int cache_firmware(const char *name)
+{
+	return -ENOENT;
+}
+
+static inline int uncache_firmware(const char *name)
+{
+	return -EINVAL;
+}
 #endif
 
 #endif