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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] typhoon: Use request_firmware()
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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.