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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: net: Fix asix read transfer buffer allocations.
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 19:29:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710221929.04035.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071022155053.GA28526@ru.mvista.com>

Am Montag 22 Oktober 2007 schrieb Valentine Barshak:
>  static int asix_mdio_read(struct net_device *netdev, int phy_id, int loc)
>  {
>         struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(netdev);
> +       void *buf;
>         u16 res;
>  
>         mutex_lock(&dev->phy_mutex);
>         asix_set_sw_mii(dev);
> +
> +       buf = kmalloc(2, GFP_KERNEL);

This is done under lock. Can you allocate the buffer once and reuse it?

	Regards
		Oliver


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-22 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-22 15:50 [PATCH] USB: net: Fix asix read transfer buffer allocations Valentine Barshak
2007-10-22 17:29 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2007-10-22 19:22   ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-23 17:00     ` Ingo Oeser
2007-10-23 17:20       ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-23 17:40         ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-23 20:00           ` David Brownell
2007-10-24 11:24             ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-24 11:33               ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-24 11:33             ` Valentine Barshak
2007-10-24 11:59               ` David Hollis

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