Hi!

> We need to ensure that when driver developers use the custom firmware
> fallback mechanism it was not a copy and paste bug. These use cases on
> upstream drivers are rare, we only have 2 upstream users and its for
> really old drivers. Since valid uses are rare but possible enable a
> white-list for its use, and use this same white-list annotation to refer
> to the documentation covering the custom use case.

> --- a/drivers/leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c
> +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c
> @@ -219,6 +219,7 @@ static void lp55xx_firmware_loaded(const struct firmware 
> *fw, void *context)
>       release_firmware(chip->fw);
>  }
>  
> +DECLARE_FW_CUSTOM_FALLBACK("Documentation/leds/leds-lp55xx.txt");
>  static int lp55xx_request_firmware(struct lp55xx_chip *chip)
>  {
>       const char *name = chip->cl->name;

The driver does:

static void lp55xx_firmware_loaded(const struct firmware *fw, void
*context)
{
        struct lp55xx_chip *chip = context;
                struct device *dev = &chip->cl->dev;
                        enum lp55xx_engine_index idx =
                        chip->engine_idx;

        if (!fw) {
                        dev_err(dev, "firmware request failed\n");
                                        goto out;
                                             }
        ...
out:
        /* firmware should be released for other channel use */
                release_firmware(chip->fw);
}


Does that match the "custom fallback" definition?


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