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From: Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan <vasanth@atheros.com>
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On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:35:13AM +0530, Jeff Hansen wrote:
> +       max = 80 + sc->cur_rate_table->rate_cnt * 64;
> +       buf = vmalloc(max + 1);

I think kmalloc() is the better option here, you are not even
allocating a page, you are allocating 2952B at max.

Vasanth