linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ath6kl: Use vmalloc for loading firmware using api1 method and use kvfree

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Message-ID: <87mvtvluvj.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:	Mon, 30 Nov 2015 11:05:52 +0200
From:	Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com>
To:	Brent Taylor <motobud@...il.com>
CC:	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <ath6kl@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ath6kl: Use vmalloc for loading firmware using api1 method and use kvfree

Kalle Valo <kvalo@....qualcomm.com> writes:

> Brent Taylor <motobud@...il.com> writes:
>
>> Signed-off-by: Brent Taylor <motobud@...il.com>
>>
>> ath6kl: Use vmalloc for loading firmware using api1 method and free using kvfree
>> ---
>> Changes v1 -> v2:
>>    - simplify memory allocation
>>    - use kvfree
>
> Why? The commit log should _always_ answer that. Are you fixing a bug
> (what bug exactly?), is this just cleanup or what?
>
> And the commit log is wrongly formatted anyway, the Signed-off-by line
> should be the last and there should be no "ath6kl:" string in the commit
> log (just in the title). Use 'git log' to find examples.

Fixing netdev address (kenrel -> kernel)

-- 
Kalle Valo
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