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Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:15:25 -0800 (PST)
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: dave@...dillows.org
Cc: ben@...adent.org.uk, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 checked] typhoon: Use request_firmware()
From: David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:49:16 -0500
> typhoon: repair firmware loading
>
> The conversion to avoid using pci_alloc_consistent() broke the firmware
> load process, as well as added an order-4 kmalloc and doubled the memory
> usage of the firmware image. Go back to loading a page at a time.
>
> Also, since the user can now give us utter garbage for firmware, do a
> cursory validation so we don't try to load just anything.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
Applied, thanks David.
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