Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add PCI ROMs to sysfs | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2004 21:11:42 +0100 |
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On Mer, 2004-08-11 at 20:24, Jon Smirl wrote: > Alan Cox had concerns about copying the ROMs for those devices that > don't implement full address decoding. I'm using kmalloc for 40-60KB. > Would vmalloc be a better choice? Very few drivers will use the copy > option, mostly old hardware.
As I said before you don't need to allocate big chunks of kernel memory for this because you don't want to store ROM copies in kernel, you just disallow mmap in such a case and let the user use read().
I am opposed to anything that keeps ROM copies in the kernel.
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