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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Zhang Ning <ning.a.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: kstewart@linuxfoundation.org, pombredanne@nexb.com,
	yamada.masahiro@socionext.com, markus@trippelsdorf.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ting <ting.li@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] firmware: make sure builtin firmware is page alignment
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2018 07:39:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180803053948.GB1852@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180803014521.21527-1-ning.a.zhang@intel.com>

On Fri, Aug 03, 2018 at 09:45:21AM +0800, Zhang Ning wrote:
> when firmware is in filesystem, request_firmware will load it,
> and copy it to vmalloc memory, that is page align memory.
> 
> but when firmware is builtin, it is 8 bytes or 4 bytes alignment.
> 
> make sure builtin firmware is page algnment, that can simplify algorithm
> to handle firmware.

How is it simplified?  I don't see any such change like that here :(


  reply	other threads:[~2018-08-03  5:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-03  1:45 [PATCH] firmware: make sure builtin firmware is page alignment Zhang Ning
2018-08-03  5:39 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-08-03  8:42   ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-08-03 10:31     ` gregkh
2018-08-06  1:48       ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-08-06  5:13         ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-08-06 14:05         ` gregkh
2018-08-07  2:27           ` Zhang, Ning A
2018-08-07  8:12             ` gregkh

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