From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartmann <greg@kroah.com>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] firmware: dynamic firmware id allocation
Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 21:04:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090526190415.GA3500@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090526174012.423883376@linux.intel.com>
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 07:40:12PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote:
> This 6 patches patch set allows for a removal of the firmware name length
> restriction from the firmware class API.
> Currently we're limited to 30 characters for firmware names because of a
> statically allocated 30 bytes string in the firmware class code. We also want
> to remove the FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX definition to prevent future drivers from
> referencing it.
>
> Patch #1 removes that restriction by dynamically allocating the firmware id.
> Patches #2,3,4,5 remove all FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX references from the kernel code.
> Patch #6 gets rid of the FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX definition, and should be applied
> only once all previous patches from this patch set are applied.
You probably want to include "libertas: adapt for dynamic firmware
id allocation" in this series... :-)
John
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-26 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-26 17:40 [PATCH 0/6] firmware: dynamic firmware id allocation Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 17:40 ` [PATCH 1/6] firmware: allocate firmware id dynamically Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 17:40 ` [PATCH 2/6] atm/ueagle-atm: prepare for FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX removal Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 17:40 ` [PATCH 3/6] tuners/xc2028: " Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 17:40 ` [PATCH 4/6] dvb/dvb-usb: " Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 18:32 ` Michael Krufky
2009-05-26 18:42 ` Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 18:44 ` Michael Krufky
2009-05-26 17:40 ` [PATCH 5/6] pcmcia/ds: " Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 17:40 ` [PATCH 6/6] firmware: " Samuel Ortiz
2009-05-26 19:04 ` John W. Linville [this message]
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