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Documentation: update firmware loader fallback reference

The firmware loader has a fallback mechanism, and it now has some proper
kdoc, but we forgot to update the Documentation to use the new kdoc. Fix
that.

Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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Luis R. Rodriguez and committed by
Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Documentation/driver-api/firmware/fallback-mechanisms.rst
··· 92 92 93 93 The firmware device used to help load firmware using sysfs is only created if 94 94 direct firmware loading fails and if the fallback mechanism is enabled for your 95 - firmware request, this is set up with fw_load_from_user_helper(). It is 95 + firmware request, this is set up with :c:func:`firmware_fallback_sysfs`. It is 96 96 important to re-iterate that no device is created if a direct filesystem lookup 97 97 succeeded. 98 98 ··· 107 107 firmware_data_read() and firmware_loading_show() are just provided for the 108 108 test_firmware driver for testing, they are not called in normal use or 109 109 expected to be used regularly by userspace. 110 + 111 + firmware_fallback_sysfs 112 + ----------------------- 113 + .. kernel-doc:: drivers/base/firmware_loader/fallback.c 114 + :functions: firmware_fallback_sysfs 110 115 111 116 Firmware kobject uevent fallback mechanism 112 117 ==========================================