Re: [RFC PATCH 07/13] driver core: firmware loader: introducecache_firmware and uncache_firmware

[Ming Lei]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:52 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> You have similar functionality in fw_lookup_and_alloate_buf() above.
> Can't you reuse it instead of defining a new function?

The problem is that the lock can't be released between lookup and allocate
inside fw_lookup_and_alloate_buf(). I will try to introduce __fw_lookup_buf
and reuse it in both fw_lookup_and_alloate_buf and fw_lookup_buf.

Also will fix the comments and code style you mentioned in -v1.


Thanks,
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Ming Lei
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