Re: [PATCH] usb: gadget LLVMLinux: Removing the use of VLAIS from the gadget driver

[Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>]

On 09/23/13 15:08, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com> wrote:
>> I remember there was a discussion of not dropping variable length array
>> support, wasn't there ?
> We should definitely drop it. The feature is an abomination. I thought
> gcc only allowed them at the end of structs, in the middle of a struct
> it's just f*cking insane beyond belief.
>
> That said, for *this* particular case, that USB widget driver already
> does a ton of small kmalloc's and then remembers the addresses
> independently. People may not care about performance, but it *might*
> be a good idea to just do one kmalloc()/kfree(), and then still have
> those pointer variables, but just be offsets within that one
> allocation.
>
> That's what gcc has to basically do for that thing internally
> *anyway*, just hidden behind a horrible construct that should never
> have existed.
We can certainly do that instead.

I believe I already have a version of the patch which does just that 
(without using macros). I will post it for comment.

Thanks,

Behan

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Behan Webster
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