Re: [PATCH -net-next 2/4] firmware: convert acenic driver torequest_firmware() -- without firmware data

From: David Miller
Date: Sun Jan 04 2009 - 19:10:34 EST


From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:44:54 +0530

> firmware: convert acenic driver to request_firmware()
>
> We store the firmware in its native big-endian form now, so the loop in
> ace_copy() is modified to use be32_to_cpup() when writing it out.
>
> We can forget the BSS,SBSS sections of the firmware, since we were
> clearing all the device's RAM anyway. And the text,rodata,data sections
> can all be loaded as a single chunk since they're contiguous (give or
> take a few dozen bytes in between).
>
> Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.
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