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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 checked] typhoon: Use request_firmware()
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:15:25 -0800 (PST)
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From: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:49:16 -0500

> typhoon: repair firmware loading
> 
> The conversion to avoid using pci_alloc_consistent() broke the firmware
> load process, as well as added an order-4 kmalloc and doubled the memory
> usage of the firmware image. Go back to loading a page at a time.
> 
> Also, since the user can now give us utter garbage for firmware, do a
> cursory validation so we don't try to load just anything.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Dillow <dave@thedillows.org>

Applied, thanks David.