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| author | Peter Maydell | 2018-12-14 14:30:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Maydell | 2018-12-14 14:30:53 +0100 |
| commit | 061923298fe34e1bf5f32006f8d725a547fc4118 (patch) | |
| tree | 9c406b57757d8848b93832015782ef59975dbfaf /include/hw/loader.h | |
| parent | hw/core/loader.c: Remove load_image() (diff) | |
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include/hw/loader.h: Document load_image_size()
Add a documentation comment for load_image_size().
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20181130151712.2312-11-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Diffstat (limited to 'include/hw/loader.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/hw/loader.h | 16 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/hw/loader.h b/include/hw/loader.h index 3766559bc2..0a0ad808ea 100644 --- a/include/hw/loader.h +++ b/include/hw/loader.h @@ -11,6 +11,22 @@ * On error, errno is also set as appropriate. */ int64_t get_image_size(const char *filename); +/** + * load_image_size: load an image file into specified buffer + * @filename: Path to the image file + * @addr: Buffer to load image into + * @size: Size of buffer in bytes + * + * Load an image file from disk into the specified buffer. + * If the image is larger than the specified buffer, only + * @size bytes are read (this is not considered an error). + * + * Prefer to use the GLib function g_file_get_contents() rather + * than a "get_image_size()/g_malloc()/load_image_size()" sequence. + * + * Returns the number of bytes read, or -1 on error. On error, + * errno is also set as appropriate. + */ ssize_t load_image_size(const char *filename, void *addr, size_t size); /**load_image_targphys_as: |