Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 May 2008 21:31:47 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] firmware: allow firmware files to be built into kernel image |
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> That's fairly much the kind of thing I was expecting we might see, I'm > not sure it's reasonable to suddenly declare that overwriting the > firmware is forbidden. I'd done the version which avoided the extra > vmalloc and copy, but I've just reverted it.
It saves us a lot of memory in several cases where the drivers hang onto the firmware so I definitely think we should fix the folks assuming they can widdle on the firmware. That doesn't look hard to do and could save 50K+ on many systems.
Alan
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