From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Manuel Estrada Sainz <ranty@debian.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
"Downing, Thomas" <Thomas.Downing@ipc.com>,
jt@hpl.hp.com, Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: request_firmware() hotplug interface, third round.
Date: Sat, 17 May 2003 15:21:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030517152129.F626@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030516223624.GA16759@kroah.com>; from greg@kroah.com on Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:36:24PM -0700
On Fri, May 16, 2003 at 03:36:24PM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> Other than those very minor tweaks, I like this interface, it's looking
> very good. I wouldn't worry about any "checksum" calcuation crud, it's
> up to the userspace tool dumping the firmware to the kernel to make sure
Ok, if that is true, then we could also have this tool enforce a
size. Otherwise we are reading and reading without ever ending
and allocating a lot of kernel resources while we are at it.
If we know the size, then we also now start and end. So the
"loading" attribute can certainly go.
Regards
Ingo Oeser
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-17 14:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-15 20:03 Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 8:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-16 9:56 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 15:53 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-16 18:31 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 22:22 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-17 0:59 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-17 4:00 ` Robert White
2003-05-17 13:23 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-17 14:57 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 18:49 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-16 22:24 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-16 23:21 ` Greg KH
2003-05-16 16:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-16 22:13 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-17 4:50 ` David Gibson
2003-05-17 7:02 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-17 8:21 ` David Gibson
2003-05-16 13:13 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-05-16 17:07 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 22:36 ` Greg KH
2003-05-16 23:37 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 23:59 ` Greg KH
2003-05-17 4:47 ` David Gibson
2003-05-17 8:54 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 23:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2003-05-17 0:03 ` Greg KH
2003-05-17 2:42 ` Robert White
2003-05-17 4:44 ` David Gibson
2003-05-17 8:46 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-17 9:07 ` David Gibson
2003-05-17 9:50 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-17 10:30 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-20 5:21 ` David Gibson
2003-05-20 8:07 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-21 4:21 ` Greg KH
2003-05-21 7:06 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-17 10:51 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-17 13:21 ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2003-05-17 15:15 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
[not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.55.0305151623520.2885@marabou.research.att.com>
2003-05-16 9:27 ` Manuel Estrada Sainz
2003-05-16 22:39 ` Greg KH
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