On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 08:50 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
quoted text > I'm not quite sure whether my question was answered ...
>
> When firmware is built in, does
> 1) request_firmware() make a copy of it and then release_firmware free
> that copy?
> 2) request_firmware() return a pointer to the built-in firmware with
> release_firmware() being a no-op?
> 3) request_firmware() return a pointer to the built-in firmware with
> release_firmware() freeing the original?
>
> Cases 1 and 2 are fine, case 3 is a problem.
Effectively (2).
Actually we do allocate and free the 'struct firmware' but fw->data is
just pointed to the original blob, and then that blob doesn't get freed.
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