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From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Cc: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@iki.fi>,
	linville@tuxdriver.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ath9k-devel@lists.ath9k.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] ath9k_hw: distinguish single-chip solutions on  initial probe print
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:29:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200910261729.38199.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43e72e890910260921h91c4cb5u5a2fc81e73377055@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 26 October 2009 17:21:40 Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> >> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/pci.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/pci.c
> >> @@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static int ath_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> >>       u32 val;
> >>       int ret = 0;
> >>       struct ath_hw *ah;
> >> +     char hw_name[1024];
> >
> > Ditto.
> 
> We use this for debugfs, so I went with that as an upper limit, given
> that we just use it a probe it seemed sane.

I think it's completely insane, because you effectively use 25% of the available stack.
Why is a hardware name 1024 chars (max) long anyway?

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I would be pissed off after reading the first line already ;)

-- 
Greetings, Michael.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-26 16:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-26 14:38 [PATCH 0/4] ath9k_hw: modify hw identification message Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-26 14:38 ` [PATCH 1/4] ath9k_hw: move mac name and rf name helpers to hw code Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-26 14:38 ` [PATCH 2/4] ath9k_hw: distinguish single-chip solutions on initial probe print Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-26 16:14   ` Kalle Valo
2009-10-26 16:21     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-26 16:29       ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2009-10-26 16:37         ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-26 14:39 ` [PATCH 3/4] ath9k_hw: add AR9271 single chip name mapping Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-10-26 14:39 ` [PATCH 4/4] ath9k_hw: add some debug print for hw initialization Luis R. Rodriguez

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