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From: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: ben@decadent.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] typhoon: Use request_firmware()
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:16:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1235963807.27973.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090301.174433.258919971.davem@davemloft.net>

On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 17:44 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:02:54 +0000
> 
> > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 15:38 -0500, David Dillow wrote:
> > > I suppose I better test this sooner rather than later, because I think
> > > you've broken it. The firmware gets vmalloc'd, which means it is not
> > > necessarily physically contiguous, and I don't think pci_map_single() is
> > > going to like that since the firmware is always larger than a page. But
> > > I may be wrong on this.
> > 
> > You could well be right.
> 
> He is definitely right, this cannot work.

Do you want to revert, or do you a patch to fix it? Revert will be
quicker as I have to dig out hardware to test...


  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-02  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1235324217.2832.49.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk>
2009-02-26 13:49 ` [PATCH v2] typhoon: Use request_firmware() Ben Hutchings
2009-02-27  7:21   ` David Miller
2009-03-01 20:38   ` David Dillow
2009-03-02  1:02     ` Ben Hutchings
2009-03-02  1:44       ` David Miller
2009-03-02  3:16         ` David Dillow [this message]
2009-03-02  4:11           ` David Miller
2009-03-02  4:29             ` David Miller
2009-03-02  7:56               ` David Dillow
2009-03-02  9:53                 ` David Miller
2009-03-03  5:44                   ` David Dillow
2009-03-03  5:49                     ` [PATCH v3 checked] " David Dillow
2009-03-03  6:15                       ` David Miller
     [not found] ` <1235622381.8683.38.camel@hashbaz.i.decadent.org.uk>
2009-02-27  7:21   ` [PATCH v2] " David Miller

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