From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [QUEUED v20180920 15/16] lib: Add memcat_p(): paste 2 pointer arrays together
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:00:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180920130000.GB17692@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180920124553.56978-16-alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 03:45:52PM +0300, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> This adds a helper to paste 2 pointer arrays together, useful for merging
> various types of attribute arrays. There are a few places in the kernel
> tree where this is open coded, and I just added one more in the STM class.
>
> The naming is inspired by memset_p() and memcat(), and partial credit for
> it goes to Andy Shevchenko.
>
> This patch adds the function wrapped in a type-enforcing macro and a test
> module.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
It would be good to get someone else to review/ack a core function like
this, to verify nothing is incorrect. Especially given the fun of
off-by-one issues in C we have had over the years...
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-20 13:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-20 12:45 [QUEUED v20180920 00/16] stm class/intel_th: Queued updates for v4.20 Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 01/16] stm class: Rework policy node fallback Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-27 16:31 ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 02/16] stm class: Clarify configfs root type/operations names Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 03/16] stm class: Clean up stp_configfs_init Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 04/16] stm class: Introduce framing protocol drivers Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-27 16:46 ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-10-03 13:03 ` Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 05/16] stm class: Add a helper for writing data packets Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-27 17:07 ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-10-03 12:58 ` Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 06/16] stm class: Factor out default framing protocol Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 07/16] stm class: Switch over to the protocol driver Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 08/16] stm class: Add MIPI SyS-T protocol support Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-27 17:08 ` Mathieu Poirier
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 09/16] stm class: p_sys-t: Add support for CLOCKSYNC packets Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 10/16] stm class: p_sys-t: Document the configfs interface Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 11/16] stm class: Document the MIPI SyS-T protocol usage Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 12/16] intel_th: SPDX-ify the documentation Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 13/16] stm class: " Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 14/16] stm class: heartbeat: Fix whitespace Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 15/16] lib: Add memcat_p(): paste 2 pointer arrays together Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-20 13:00 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2018-09-21 16:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2018-09-20 12:45 ` [QUEUED v20180920 16/16] stm class: Use memcat_p() Alexander Shishkin
2018-09-27 17:18 ` [QUEUED v20180920 00/16] stm class/intel_th: Queued updates for v4.20 Mathieu Poirier
2018-10-03 12:52 ` Alexander Shishkin
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