Re: [PATCH] Re: Firmware loading problem

From: Manuel Estrada Sainz (ranty@debian.org)
Date: Fri Aug 01 2003 - 10:05:39 EST


On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 11:21:34PM +0200, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:21:11PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 11:04:58AM +0200, Manuel Estrada Sainz wrote:
> > > - hopefully adapt drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c to this changes
> > > - Please double check, I didn't look very carefully on
> > > this.
> >
> > Definitely wrong. I was going to undo this change since I realised how
> > it doesn't work for you; but the change you made to the PCI code is wrong.
> > It ends up copying everything to offset 0 from the buf address.
>
> Exactly, and that is what sysfs code expects (with the rest of the
> patch), the buffer is just temporary storage, it doesn't really matter
> what offset you use as long as you don't write further than
> buffer+PAGE_SIZE and both sides of the issue agree.

 My fault, I was severely misguided here, Matthew is of course write.
 Now that I understand the issue a little deeper I'll try send a correct
 patch to get the issue done with.

 Have a nice day

         Manuel

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