On Apr 5, 2005 6:45 AM, Jan Harkes <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 11:22:06AM +0200, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > I agree with Dmitry on this point. The IHEX parser should not be inside
> > firmware_class.c. What about using keyspan_ihex.[ch] for it?
>
> That's what I had originally, actually called firmware_ihex.ko, since
> the IHEX format parser is not in any way keyspan specific and there are
> several usb-serial converters that seem to use the same IHEX->.h trick
> which could trivially be modified to use this loader.
>
> But the compiled parser fairly small (< 2KB) and adding it to the
> existing module didn't effectively add any size to the firmware_class
> module since things are rounded to a page boundary anyways.
>
It is not about the size, it is about source separation. Since it has
nothing to do with actualy loading of a BLOB from userspace to kernel
space I'd put it into lib/, like crc functions, etc. It does not
really have to work with "struct firmware *", "void *data, size_t len"
should be just as useable.
--
Dmitry
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