Hi, On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It is not necessary to hold the firmware memory during the whole >> driver lifetime, and obviously it does waste memory. Suppose there >> are 4 ath9k-htc usb dongles working, kernel has to consume about >> 4*50KBytes RAM to cache firmware for all dongles. After applying the >> patch, kernel only caches one single firmware image in RAM for >> all ath9k-htc devices just during system suspend/resume cycle. >> >> When system is ready for loading firmware, ath9k-htc can request >> the loading from usersapce. During system resume, ath9k-htc still >> can load the firmware which was cached in kernel memory before >> system suspend. >> >> Cc: ath9k-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Cc: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Jouni Malinen <jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vthiagar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Senthil Balasubramanian <senthilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> v1: >> fix double free of firmware in failue path of >> ath9k_hif_usb_firmware_cb > > Gentle ping, :-) this patch is now in wireless-testing :-) > > > Thanks, > -- > Ming Lei > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- thanks, shafi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
