linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] staging: r8188eu: fix and clean up some firmware code

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Date:   Thu, 14 Apr 2022 10:43:16 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     phil@...lpotter.co.uk, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] staging: r8188eu: fix and clean up some firmware code

On 4/14/22 03:38, Michael Straube wrote:
> This series fixes wrong size of struct rt_firmware_hdr in the first
> patch and does some cleanups in rtl8188e_firmware_download() in the
> other patches.
> 
> Tested on x86_64 with Inter-Tech DMG-02.
> 
> Michael Straube (7):
>    staging: r8188eu: fix struct rt_firmware_hdr
>    staging: r8188eu: clean up comments in struct rt_firmware_hdr
>    staging: r8188eu: rename fields of struct rt_firmware_hdr
>    staging: r8188eu: use sizeof instead of hardcoded firmware header size
>    staging: r8188eu: remove variables from rtl8188e_firmware_download()
>    staging: r8188eu: always log firmware info
>    staging: r8188eu: check firmware header existence before access

Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net> for 2/7 through 5/7. Patch 
1/7 has a typo in the commit message, and I have objection to the logging 
changes in 6/7 and 7/7.

Larry