Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: drop some VLAs in switch.c

[Salvatore Mesoraca]

2018-03-13 20:58 GMT+01:00 Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi Salvatore,

Hi Vivien,

> Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> dsa_switch's num_ports is currently fixed to DSA_MAX_PORTS. So we avoid
>> 2 VLAs[1] by using DSA_MAX_PORTS instead of ds->num_ports.
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesoraca16@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> NAK.
>
> We are in the process to remove hardcoded limits such as DSA_MAX_PORTS
> and DSA_MAX_SWITCHES, so we have to stick with ds->num_ports.

I can rewrite the patch using kmalloc.
Although, if ds->num_ports will always be less than or equal to 12, it
should be better to
just use DSA_MAX_PORTS.

Thank you,

Salvatore