Re: [PATCH 1/7] iio: Use kmalloc_array() in iio_scan_mask_set()

From: Jonathan Cameron
Date: Sat Sep 24 2016 - 12:36:39 EST


On 24/09/16 17:18, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git - initially pushed out
>> as testing for the autobuilders to play with it.
>
> Thanks for your positive response.
>
>
> Do you see any need to improve the software situation around
> the macro "BITS_TO_LONGS" further?
>
> Do you fiddle with a programming interface like "bitmap_alloc" occasionally?
It might be clearer than having an array allocation as we do after this
patch. Obviously the representation is an array, but it is a little ugly
as it stands!
>
> Regards,
> Markus
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