netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] cxgb4: reduce memory footprint for collecting firmware dump

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Date:   Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:56:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, ganeshgr@...lsio.com,
        nirranjan@...lsio.com, indranil@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] cxgb4: reduce memory footprint for
 collecting firmware dump

From: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@...lsio.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2018 12:53:45 +0530

> Firmware dump can be large (upto 2 GB).  In low memory conditions,
> ethtool fails to allocate such large memory.  So, use zlib deflate
> to compress collected firmware dump.
> 
> Patch 1 updates collection logic to use compression.
> 
> Patch 2 adds zlib deflate to compress collected firmware dump.

Series applied, thanks Rahul.