Staging: sxg: Add support to download the firmware using request_firmware()

Add support for downloading the firmware using kernel-builtin mechanism.
This will remove the need for the firmware files in the driver source code.

Signed-off-by: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>
Signed-off-by: Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/WHENCE b/WHENCE
index 156df4de14648c4f1dbc4b041aaae95ab9813335..df79422bb7aba85835e76be4fe767c8c9c53c186 100644 (file)
--- a/WHENCE
+++ b/WHENCE
@@ -378,6 +378,18 @@ Found in hex form in kernel source.
 
 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
+Driver: SXG - Alacritech IS-NIC products
+
+File: sxg/saharadownloadB.sys.ihex
+File: sxg/saharadbgdownloadB.sys.ihex
+
+Licence: Unknown
+
+Found in hex form in kernel source.
+Copyright 1997-2009 Alacritech, Inc. All rights reserved.
+
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 Driver: cxgb3 - Chelsio Terminator 3 1G/10G Ethernet adapter
 
 File: cxgb3/t3b_psram-1.1.0.bin.ihex

diff --git a/sxg/saharadbgdownloadB.sys b/sxg/saharadbgdownloadB.sys
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..d3b3ed1
Binary files /dev/null and b/sxg/saharadbgdownloadB.sys differ

diff --git a/sxg/saharadownloadB.sys b/sxg/saharadownloadB.sys
new file mode 100644 (file)
index 0000000..c48cb92
Binary files /dev/null and b/sxg/saharadownloadB.sys differ