From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752334AbdJTNet (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:34:49 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:33604 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750960AbdJTNer (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2017 09:34:47 -0400 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:34:55 +0200 From: Greg KH To: srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Masahiro Yamada Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] nvmem: mtk-efuse: use stack for nvmem_config instead of malloc'ing it Message-ID: <20171020133455.GD9301@kroah.com> References: <20171009132641.27169-1-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> <20171009132641.27169-3-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20171009132641.27169-3-srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.9.1 (2017-09-22) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 03:26:31PM +0200, srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org wrote: > From: Masahiro Yamada > > nvmem_register() copies all the members of nvmem_config to > nvmem_device. So, nvmem_config is one-time use data during > probing. There is no point to keep it until the driver detach. > Using stack should be no problem because nvmem_config is pretty > small. Same objection as previous patch, what is wrong with it as-is? thanks, greg k-h