firmware_class: Introduce the request_firmware_direct API
On devices with low memory, using request_firmware on rather large firmware images results in a memory usage penalty that might be unaffordable. Introduce a new API that allows the firmware image to be directly loaded to a destination address without using any intermediate buffer. Change-Id: I51b55dd9044ea669e2126a3f908028850bf76325 Signed-off-by:Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org> [joshc: renamed request_firmware_direct to request_firmware_into_buf, avoiding namespace conflict] Signed-off-by:
Josh Cartwright <joshc@codeaurora.org> [vmulukut: upstream merge conflict fixups] Signed-off-by:
Vikram Mulukutla <markivx@codeaurora.org>
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