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Re: [PATCH 1/2] ath6kl: Use vmalloc instead of kmalloc for fw

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On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 21:27 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> On 03/28/2012 04:51 PM, Vivek Natarajan wrote:
> > Sometimes it has been observed that allocating a contiguous memory
> > of more than 100K fails with kmalloc. This has been modified to
> > use vmalloc instead.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: PingYang Zhang <pingzhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <nataraja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Thanks, both patches applied.

Because the vmalloc space is limited, this should try
kmalloc first and only on failure try vmalloc.

Andrew, more reasons for a real helper/API.
Care to rap any knuckles?

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