From: "Franky Lin" <frankyl@broadcom.com>
To: "Hauke Mehrtens" <hauke@hauke-m.de>, linville@tuxdriver.com
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcmfmac: use vmalloc to allocate mem for the firmware
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 11:33:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB69612.6030304@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1337365373-12418-1-git-send-email-hauke@hauke-m.de>
On 05/18/2012 11:22 AM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> The firmware is more than 300KB big and you should not use kmalloc for
> such big allocations. This allocation with kmalloc failed on my mips
> based device (BCM47186).
>
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens<hauke@hauke-m.de>
> ---
You're right. We have noticed the kmalloc usage probelm but didn't have
time to clean up the mess. Thanks for fixing this one.
Acked-by: Franky Lin <frankyl@broadcom.com>
Franky
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2012-05-18 18:22 [PATCH] brcmfmac: use vmalloc to allocate mem for the firmware Hauke Mehrtens
2012-05-18 18:33 ` Franky Lin [this message]
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