netdev - Re: [PATCH] [ETHTOOL]: Add support for large eeproms

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Message-Id: <20080415.192426.21456164.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:24:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	msb@...gle.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jeff@...zik.org, joe@...ches.com,
	nil@...gle.com, thockin@...gle.com, matthew@....cx
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [ETHTOOL]: Add support for large eeproms

From: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...gle.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:03:38 -0700

> Currently, it is not possible to read/write to an eeprom larger than
> 128k in size because the buffer used for temporarily storing the
> eeprom contents is allocated using kmalloc. kmalloc can only allocate
> a maximum of 128k depending on architecture.
> 
> Modified ethtool_get/set_eeprom to only allocate a page of memory and
> then copy the eeprom a page at a time.
> 
> Updated original patch as per suggestions from Joe Perches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mandeep Singh Baines <msb@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks.
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