netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] sfc: Use fixed-size buffers for MCDI NVRAM requests

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:50:13 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] sfc: Use fixed-size buffers for MCDI NVRAM requests

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:30:52 +0000

> The low-level MCDI code always uses 32-bit MMIO operations, and
> callers must pad input and output buffers to multiples of 4 bytes.
> The MCDI NVRAM functions are not doing this.  Also, their buffers are
> declared as variable-length arrays with no explicit maximum length.
> 
> Switch to a fixed buffer size based on the chunk size used by the
> MTD driver (which is a multiple of 4).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
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