Re: RFC: ti_usb-serial: userspace firmware, internal cfg. change, cleanup

Alan Cox <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usb.devel
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Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 16:47:55 +0100
Oleg Verych <[email protected]> wrote:

> Al, Greg.
> 
> This is all-in-one patch for show.
> 
> o  File 'tiusb3410.i51' or  'tiusb5052.i51' is being requested from the
>    userspace, usually '/lib/firmware/'.
> 
> o  Reconfiguration is done internally.
> 
> o  kmalloc() isn't used for copying-copying of the binary. Optimistic
>    allocation always requires 4 pages for maximum 16k of data.

Seems reasonable - is there any reason for not doing a page at a time.
Presumably firmware upload isnt that performance critical, and you may
not find a 16K block on some systems, especially embedded.

Alan

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