The following reply was made to PR kern/32342; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Iain Hibbert <plunky@rya-online.net>
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, kern-bug-people@netbsd.org,
	gnats-admin@netbsd.org, netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/32342: OpenBSD firmware loading framework
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 01:24:40 +0000 (GMT)

 On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, Jason Thorpe wrote:
 
 > I'm thinking more like:
 >
 > 	error = firmware_open("cz", ..., &handle);
 > 	...
 > 	error = firmware_read(handle, offset, buf, buflen);
 > 	...
 > 	error = firmware_close(handle);
 >
 > Driver allocates and frees its own buffers.  Perhaps we provide
 > firmware_*() routines for buffer management (pageable vs. non-pageable
 > memory, etc.)
 
 on the one hand this looks very complex..
 
 on the other hand, this starts to become very similar to vnsubr(9) and
 could be quite simple..
 
 iain