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From: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
To: Jassi Brar <jassisinghbrar@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	"A.s. Dong" <aisheng.dong@nxp.com>,
	Devicetree List <devicetree@vger.kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>, ",
	linux-arm-kernel"@lists.infradead.org,
	Vladimir Zapolskiy <vladimir_zapolskiy@mentor.com>, ",
	Sascha Hauer" <kernel@pengutronix.de>,
	Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@nxp.com>,
	srv_heupstream <linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org>,
	Shawn Guo <shawnguo@kernel.org>,
	srv_heupstream <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	dl-linux-imx <linux-imx@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] mailbox: Add support for i.MX7D messaging unit
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:42:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e224cff8-0b47-9221-72fa-5db19d531492@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABb+yY2=mFr+gFuWyE+VyG6dWj3gKhTs6X+U9UjFu5N=4zU5uA@mail.gmail.com>


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On 26.07.2018 13:09, Jassi Brar wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de> wrote:
> 
>>>
>>>> +struct imx_mu_con_priv {
>>>> +       int                     irq;
>>>> +       unsigned int            idx;
>>>> +       char                    *irq_desc;
>>>>
>>> Having      char  irq_desc[16];    seems simpler than free/kfree upon
>>> each startup/shutdown. Simply use snprintf() in probe().
>>
>> Currently all known configurations use one or two channels. I don't see
>> any sense to allocate all at the probe.
>>
> Just because only 2 out of 4 channels are being used, it doesn't make sense?
> 
> What is the concern?  "wasting" 16x2 bytes of memory?  How many bytes,
> LOC and execution time does kasprintf() waste?

Startup or shutdown is not speed critical path in this driver, or do i
miss some thing? Speed vs size is not valid argumentation here.


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     [not found]   ` <CABb+yY1Fbj2GiO_zjwnvNFutjX_fRpxnuEoeu6Z3s4NAv2ugbg@mail.gmail.com>
2018-07-26 10:51     ` [PATCH v7 6/6] mailbox: Add support for i.MX7D messaging unit Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-26 11:09       ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-26 11:42         ` Oleksij Rempel [this message]
2018-07-26 12:17           ` Jassi Brar
     [not found] ` <20180726065331.6186-4-o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
     [not found]   ` <CABb+yY0kVFvQRBrU4j9t=_JcSUkcXMMSK5u=XSufM6XcmKiv-g@mail.gmail.com>
2018-07-26 10:57     ` [PATCH v7 3/6] dt-bindings: mailbox: imx-mu: add generic MU channel support Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-26 11:28       ` Jassi Brar
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2018-07-30  7:35                     ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-30  8:42                       ` A.s. Dong
2018-07-30 13:04                       ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-30 14:14                         ` A.s. Dong
2018-07-30 14:27                           ` A.s. Dong
2018-07-30 14:17                         ` A.s. Dong
2018-07-30 14:44                         ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-30 15:02                           ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-30 15:36                             ` A.s. Dong
2018-07-30 16:18                             ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-30 16:49                               ` Oleksij Rempel
2018-07-31  2:51                                 ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-31  7:21                               ` A.s. Dong
2018-07-31 10:15                                 ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-31 12:42                                   ` Jassi Brar
2018-08-02  9:24                                     ` A.s. Dong
2018-08-09  2:22                                       ` A.s. Dong
2018-08-09  2:55                                         ` Jassi Brar
2018-08-09  6:45                                           ` A.s. Dong
     [not found] ` <20180726065331.6186-5-o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
     [not found]   ` <CABb+yY32vBy5qVYsQ6u45=rV6gEggqKy3Jqn1B4oWHaGfTyQ8Q@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <1532601691.32306.28.camel@pengutronix.de>
     [not found]       ` <CABb+yY1GEmw_8q2HaF8y5VfFJX_c_0_MbWtPUE_j_o-zS8iZ_g@mail.gmail.com>
2018-07-26 11:44         ` [PATCH v7 4/6] dt-bindings: mailbox: imx-mu: add i.MX6SX and i.MX7S SoCs Vladimir Zapolskiy
2018-07-26 11:52           ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-26 11:55             ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2018-07-26 12:10               ` Jassi Brar
     [not found]                 ` <CABb+yY02KNB9ELKiWYdB0LyvTghhk+nk-dTUGfG8_+KUB_H=Mw-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2018-07-26 12:41                   ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
     [not found]         ` <1532604937.32306.30.camel@pengutronix.de>
     [not found]           ` <CABb+yY0LbLfK2SEdTeuDmaGc+PsVn0AREQ=E=c4UZgxa5K95qQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-07-26 11:51             ` Vladimir Zapolskiy
2018-07-26 12:00               ` Jassi Brar
2018-07-26 12:10                 ` Vladimir Zapolskiy

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