Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] request_firmware() into pre-allocated buffers

2016-06-07 Thread Stephen Boyd
Ah sorry, I seem to have missed updating that one place (it was in multiple places). I'll resend properly. On 7 June 2016 at 01:45, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > And you're still doing it, after I've already pointed out that you > posted these to linux-arm and not linux-arm-kernel. By postin

Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] request_firmware() into pre-allocated buffers

2016-06-07 Thread Russell King - ARM Linux
And you're still doing it, after I've already pointed out that you posted these to linux-arm and not linux-arm-kernel. By posting them to the wrong list, you are preventing proper review of these patches, so really these should not be merged until you've corrected that. On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 01

[PATCH v4 0/3] request_firmware() into pre-allocated buffers

2016-06-07 Thread Stephen Boyd
Some systems are memory constrained but they need to load very large firmwares. The firmware subsystem allows drivers to request this firmware be loaded from the filesystem, but this requires that the entire firmware be loaded into kernel memory first before it's provided to the driver. This can le