Re: [PATCH v3 03/16] spi: dw: Discard static DW DMA slave structures

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu May 21 2020 - 11:56:54 EST


On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 6:51 PM Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2020 at 03:12:28PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
>
> > Well, for me both solutions are equal except mine consumes less stack memory.
> > The only reason why your solution might be better is that if DW DMA driver or
> > the DMA engine subsystem changed the dw_dma_slave structure instance passed to
> > the dma_request_channel() method, which non of them do. So I'll leave this for
> > Mark to decide. Mark, could you give us your final word about this?
>
> Honestly I'm struggling to care either way. I guess saving a bit of
> stack is potentially useful.

Yes, but OTOH dropping maintainability by this is worse in my opinion.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko