Re: [PATCH 02/12] nvmem: mtk-efuse: use stack for nvmem_config instead of malloc'ing it

From: Masahiro Yamada
Date: Fri Oct 20 2017 - 09:48:28 EST


2017-10-20 22:34 GMT+09:00 Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Oct 09, 2017 at 03:26:31PM +0200, srinivas.kandagatla@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> From: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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.


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Masahiro Yamada