From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>,
libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [rfc patch] libertas: fix if_spi_prog_helper_firmware()
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:15:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282652121.2968.9.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100824120743.GG29330@bicker>
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On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 14:07 +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The indenting is not correct here. I don't have this hardware and I'm
> just guessing as to what was intended. I think that if there is an
> error we should return an error code, but if there isn't an error we
> should return success directly without releasing the firmware.
[...]
The driver doesn't use or refer to the firmware image once it's copied
into device RAM, so this just leaks the firmware.
The driver *should* keep a reference so it can restore the firmware
after suspend/resume without filesystem access (which is likely to
deadlock).
Ben.
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Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-24 12:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-24 12:07 [rfc patch] libertas: fix if_spi_prog_helper_firmware() Dan Carpenter
2010-08-24 12:15 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-08-26 3:26 ` Colin McCabe
2010-08-26 3:37 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-08-26 17:04 ` Colin McCabe
2010-08-24 12:17 ` Johannes Berg
2010-08-26 15:48 ` Dan Williams
2010-08-26 18:52 ` Paul Fox
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