From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz>,
linux-pci@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:11:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1092255102.18968.276.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040811192411.36763.qmail@web14927.mail.yahoo.com>
On Mer, 2004-08-11 at 20:24, Jon Smirl wrote:
> Alan Cox had concerns about copying the ROMs for those devices that
> don't implement full address decoding. I'm using kmalloc for 40-60KB.
> Would vmalloc be a better choice? Very few drivers will use the copy
> option, mostly old hardware.
As I said before you don't need to allocate big chunks of kernel memory
for this because you don't want to store ROM copies in kernel, you just
disallow mmap in such a case and let the user use read().
I am opposed to anything that keeps ROM copies in the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-11 21:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 110+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-30 21:09 [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 21:29 ` Greg KH
2004-07-30 21:34 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 21:39 ` Greg KH
2004-07-30 21:48 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 22:15 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-31 15:59 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-02 17:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-02 17:29 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-02 21:00 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-02 21:05 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-02 23:32 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-02 23:30 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-03 2:03 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-03 2:32 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-03 17:07 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-03 21:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-03 21:28 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-03 21:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-03 21:31 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-03 21:36 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-03 21:39 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-04 6:00 ` lspci and ROM on bridge, was: " Jon Smirl
2004-08-04 16:04 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-05 5:05 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-05 5:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-08-05 11:53 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-05 15:54 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-05 16:25 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-05 20:45 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-05 21:12 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-06 21:14 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-06 22:33 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-11 17:04 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-11 17:28 ` Greg KH
2004-08-11 18:02 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-11 18:12 ` Greg KH
2004-08-12 1:28 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2004-08-12 14:38 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-12 17:29 ` Greg KH
2004-08-12 2:25 ` Miles Bader
2004-08-12 4:38 ` Greg KH
2004-08-12 9:18 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-12 22:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-11 19:24 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-11 19:44 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-11 20:11 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-08-11 23:31 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-12 11:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-12 20:28 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-12 0:45 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-12 4:37 ` Greg KH
2004-08-04 6:08 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-04 15:56 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-07-30 21:53 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-31 10:03 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-07-31 13:28 ` Jon Smirl
2004-07-31 15:42 ` Greg KH
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-04 15:57 Petr Vandrovec
2004-08-04 17:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-05 1:38 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-11 23:27 Pallipadi, Venkatesh
2004-08-12 0:22 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-12 2:22 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-13 18:17 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-14 5:34 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-14 9:47 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-14 14:17 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-14 22:10 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-14 23:39 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-18 18:13 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-18 18:37 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-08-23 22:51 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 17:32 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-25 17:42 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 18:06 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-25 18:19 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 18:45 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-25 18:55 ` Greg KH
2004-08-25 20:06 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-26 13:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-26 15:40 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-26 15:58 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-26 19:54 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-28 16:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-28 17:33 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-28 17:38 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-27 16:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-27 22:29 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-28 16:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-28 21:53 ` Grant Grundler
2004-08-25 18:29 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-19 12:51 ` Alan Cox
2004-08-19 23:00 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-19 14:01 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-19 23:11 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-20 10:26 ` Martin Mares
2004-08-25 15:36 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-08-25 15:50 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-12 8:39 Thomas Winischhofer
2004-08-29 4:58 Jon Smirl
2004-09-03 1:40 Jon Smirl
2004-09-03 17:27 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-03 17:45 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-03 18:06 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-09-08 3:15 Jon Smirl
2004-09-08 6:07 ` Greg KH
2004-09-08 23:50 ` Greg KH
2004-10-08 2:20 ` Jon Smirl
2004-11-05 23:06 ` Greg KH
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