Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: iio replaced kmalloc with local variables.

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:37:37AM +0530, anish wrote:
> From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Replace kmalloc with local variables as it was un-necessary and
> also removed the redudant code after this change.

No, it was necessary, you just broke this driver on ARM-based systems,
which isn't nice at all :(

SPI data, like USB data, has to come from kmalloced data, not from the
stack, or bad things can, and will, happen.

So I can't accept this patch, sorry.

greg k-h
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