From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray()
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:59:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fcfd81f62ec87d9b75cca32468d8b9583faec47.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200928104155.7385-2-brgl@bgdev.pl>
On Mon, 2020-09-28 at 12:41 +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>
> There's a common pattern of dynamically allocating an array of char
> pointers and then also dynamically allocating each string in this
> array. Provide a helper for freeing such a string array with one call.
Isn't this also common for things like ring buffers?
Why limit this to char *[]?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-28 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-28 10:41 [PATCH v2 0/9] gpio: mockup: refactoring + documentation Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 1/9] lib: string_helpers: provide kfree_strarray() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 12:55 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-28 13:04 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 13:56 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-28 15:59 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2020-09-28 16:02 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 16:06 ` Joe Perches
2020-09-28 16:25 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-29 8:10 ` David Laight
2020-09-29 8:49 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-29 9:42 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 2/9] Documentation: gpio: add documentation for gpio-mockup Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 3/9] gpio: mockup: drop unneeded includes Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 4/9] gpio: mockup: use KBUILD_MODNAME Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 5/9] gpio: mockup: use pr_fmt() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 6/9] gpio: mockup: remove unneeded return statement Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 7/9] gpio: mockup: pass the chip label as device property Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 13:00 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-28 13:13 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 14:00 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-28 14:52 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 16:24 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 8/9] gpio: mockup: use the generic 'gpio-line-names' property Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-09-28 13:01 ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-09-28 10:41 ` [PATCH v2 9/9] gpio: mockup: refactor the module init function Bartosz Golaszewski
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