Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Oct 2017 15:54:23 +0200 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 02/12] nvmem: mtk-efuse: use stack for nvmem_config instead of malloc'ing it |
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On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 10:47:28PM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > 2017-10-20 22:34 GMT+09:00 Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 03:26:31PM +0200, srinivas.kandagatla@linaro.org wrote: > >> From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> > >> > >> nvmem_register() copies all the members of nvmem_config to > >> nvmem_device. So, nvmem_config is one-time use data during > >> probing. There is no point to keep it until the driver detach. > >> Using stack should be no problem because nvmem_config is pretty > >> small. > > > > Same objection as previous patch, what is wrong with it as-is? > > > > It is wasting memory.
The memory is freed again, after the call, right?
thanks,
greg k-h
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