[PATCH] ath6kl: Use vmalloc for loading firmware using api1 method
Tetsuo Handa
penguin-kernel at I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp
Sat Nov 28 18:56:41 PST 2015
Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Brent Taylor <motobud at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Whats the status on this patch? I don't see it on patchwork anymore
> > nor is it in any of the git trees I checked.
> >
>
> You forget to use kvfree() instead of kfree() in core.c.
>
In addition to that, I think you can do like below.
if (&ar->fw == fw)
*fw = vmalloc(fw_entry->size);
else
*fw = kmalloc(fw_entry->size, GFP_KERNEL);
if (*fw == NULL)
ret = -ENOMEM;
else
memcpy(*fw, fw_entry->data, fw_entry->size);
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