Re: request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round.

From: Ingo Oeser (ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de)
Date: Sat May 17 2003 - 08:21:29 EST


On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:36:24PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Other than those very minor tweaks, I like this interface, it's looking
> very good. I wouldn't worry about any "checksum" calcuation crud, it's
> up to the userspace tool dumping the firmware to the kernel to make sure

Ok, if that is true, then we could also have this tool enforce a
size. Otherwise we are reading and reading without ever ending
and allocating a lot of kernel resources while we are at it.

If we know the size, then we also now start and end. So the
"loading" attribute can certainly go.

Regards

Ingo Oeser
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