linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] staging: r8188eu: fix and clean up some firmware code

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Date:   Fri, 15 Apr 2022 10:48:13 -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 v3 0/8] staging: r8188eu: fix and clean up some firmware
 code

On 4/15/22 07:10, 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.
> 
> v3:
> - Splitted the first patch into two separate patches.
> - Added back logging the firmware version only once.
> - Included the compile time check for size of rt_firmware from
>    patch 8/8 of v2 in the patch that replaces the hardcoded size.
> 
> v2:
> - Added a patch to check size of struct rt_firmware_hdr at compile time.
> 
> Michael Straube (8):
>    staging: r8188eu: fix struct rt_firmware_hdr
>    staging: r8188eu: convert u32 fields of rt_firmware_hdr to __le32
>    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: use pr_info_once() to log the firmware version
>    staging: r8188eu: check firmware header existence before access
> 
>   drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_fw.c | 79 ++++++++++-----------------
>   1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 50 deletions(-)

Most of this is fine, other than the removal of in-line comments in patch 3/8.

Larry