Hi, On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> wrote: >> It is not necessary to hold the firmware memory during the whole >> driver lifetime, and obviously it does waste memory. Suppose there >> are 4 ath9k-htc usb dongles working, kernel has to consume about >> 4*50KBytes RAM to cache firmware for all dongles. After applying the >> patch, kernel only caches one single firmware image in RAM for >> all ath9k-htc devices just during system suspend/resume cycle. >> >> When system is ready for loading firmware, ath9k-htc can request >> the loading from usersapce. During system resume, ath9k-htc still >> can load the firmware which was cached in kernel memory before >> system suspend. >> >> Cc: ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org >> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcg...@qca.qualcomm.com> >> Cc: Jouni Malinen <jo...@qca.qualcomm.com> >> Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthia...@qca.qualcomm.com> >> Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senth...@qca.qualcomm.com> >> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linvi...@tuxdriver.com> >> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming....@canonical.com> >> --- >> v1: >> fix double free of firmware in failue path of >> ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb > > Gentle ping, :-)
this patch is now in wireless-testing :-) > > > Thanks, > -- > Ming Lei > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- thanks, shafi _______________________________________________ ath9k-devel mailing list ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org https://lists.ath9k.org/mailman/listinfo/ath9k-devel
