Re: PATCH: support for firmwares sizes up to 128000 bytes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 17:01:40 +0000 (GMT)

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> Please apply this patch to support firmwares sizes up to 128000 bytes
> in the wanrouter. This is needed for a sync card that we're developing
> a wanrouter driver.

I dont think so. You need to change to using vmalloc not kmalloc at
this point too. Check the existing Sdla cards dont use DMA for the
firmware (Im pretty sure they dont) - swap it for a vmalloc/vfree not
a kfree then resubmit it.

A 128K kmalloc isnt going to work

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