On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 08:33:47PM +0200, Margit Schubert-While wrote:
> Curiousity regarding data pointer for usb_bulk_msg.
> Over at the prism54 project http://prism54.org , work has
> just started on adapting the driver for the USB devices.
> All of these Prism GT chipsets require a firmware to be loaded.
> This , of course, is done by the kernel firmware loader routine 
> request_firmware.
> Now the curiousity; if we use a pointer to the data area as returned
> from request_firmware, it doesn't work. If, however, we use the stack
> (or a kmalloc'ed area) and copy over and pass the stack (or km'ed area)
> address, then it works.
> Only thing I could find is that request_firmware allocates the data area
> using vmalloc. Why is this a problem ?

Hm, that's odd.  Do you have a pointer to the code, or perhaps just a
small snippet that you can post here showing the problem?

thanks,

greg k-h


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