[PATCH v10 0/9] firmware: add request_partial_firmware_into_buf

[Florian Fainelli]

On 7/6/2020 4:23 PM, Scott Branden wrote:
> This patch series adds partial read support via a new call
> request_partial_firmware_into_buf.
> Such support is needed when the whole file is not needed and/or
> only a smaller portion of the file will fit into allocated memory
> at any one time.
> In order to accept the enhanced API it has been requested that kernel
> selftests and upstreamed driver utilize the API enhancement and so
> are included in this patch series.
> 
> Also in this patch series is the addition of a new Broadcom VK driver
> utilizing the new request_firmware_into_buf enhanced API.
> 
> Further comment followed to add IMA support of the partial reads
> originating from request_firmware_into_buf calls.  And another request
> to move existing kernel_read_file* functions to its own include file.

Do you have any way to separate the VK drivers submission from the
request_partial_firmware_into_buf() work that you are doing? It looks
like it is going to require quite a few iterations of this patch set for
the firmware/fs/IMA part to be ironed out, so if you could get your
driver separated out, it might help you achieve partial success here.
-- 
Florian