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* [PATCH 0/7 v2] firmware: dynamic firmware id allocation
@ 2009-05-26 22:49 Samuel Ortiz
  2009-05-26 22:49 ` [PATCH 1/7 v2] firmware: allocate firmware id dynamically Samuel Ortiz
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From: Samuel Ortiz @ 2009-05-26 22:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: inux-kernel, Greg Kroah-Hartmann, Andrew Morton; +Cc: Kay Sievers

Hi Greg, hi Andrew,

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 #2,3,4,5,6 remove all FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX references from the kernel
code.
Patch #7 gets rid of the FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX definition, and should be applied
only once all previous patches from this patch set are applied.

Cheers,
Samuel.

v2: Included John Linville's patch for the libertas wireless driver.

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