Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Sep 2020 19:25:52 +0300 | From | Andy Shevchenko <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray() |
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On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 09:06:34AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 18:02 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 5:59 PM Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote: > > > > From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com> > > > > > > > > There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char > > > > pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this > > > > array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call. > > > > > > Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers? > > > Why limit this to char *[]? > > > > > > > I don't want to add APIs nobody is using. What do you suggest? > > Change the argument to void** and call it > > void kfree_array(void **array, int count);
Bart, if you go for this, I'm fine. You may keep my tag.
-- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
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