linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -net-next 2/4] firmware: convert acenic driver to request

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Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:10:25 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jaswinder@...radead.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jes@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -net-next 2/4] firmware: convert acenic driver to
 request_firmware() -- without firmware data

From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...radead.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:44:54 +0530

> firmware: convert acenic driver to request_firmware()
> 
> We store the firmware in its native big-endian form now, so the loop in
> ace_copy() is modified to use be32_to_cpup() when writing it out.
> 
> We can forget the BSS,SBSS sections of the firmware, since we were
> clearing all the device's RAM anyway. And the text,rodata,data sections
> can all be loaded as a single chunk since they're contiguous (give or
> take a few dozen bytes in between).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>

Applied.
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