On Wednesday 19 September 2007 22:00, Michael Chan wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 09:30 +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> + /* gzip header (1f,8b,08... 10 bytes total + possible asciz filename)
> + * is stripped, 32-bit unpacked size (LE) is prepended instead */
> + sz = *zbuf++;
> + sz = (sz << 8) + *zbuf++;
> + sz = (sz << 8) + *zbuf++;
> + sz = (sz << 8) + *zbuf++;
>
> I don't have a problem with removing the gzip header. It doesn't
> contain very useful information other than a valid header for sanity
> check. But I don't think we need to arbitrarily add the unpacked size
> in front of the gzipped data. The driver knows the size (e.g. the size
> of RAM on the chip) and should pass it to the call. The driver should
> also allocate the memory for the unpacked data instead of allocating the
> memory inside the call and freeing it by the caller. For example, the
> driver may need to use pci_alloc_consistent() if the firmware is to be
> DMA'ed to the chip.
>
> Other than that, everything else looks fine. Thanks.
Are you saying that you successfully run-tested it?
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