linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

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Message-ID: <15775.1190399812@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:36:52 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@...glemail.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, jeff@...zik.org,
	mchan@...adcom.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bnx2: factor out gzip unpacker

On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 19:05:23 BST, Denys Vlasenko said:

> I plan to use gzip compression on following drivers' firmware,
> if patches will be accepted:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>   17653  109968     240  127861   1f375 drivers/net/acenic.o
>    6628  120448       4  127080   1f068 drivers/net/dgrs.o
>          ^^^^^^

Should this be redone to use the existing firmware loading framework to
load the firmware instead?

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