From: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
To: balbi@ti.com
Cc: charlebm@gmail.com,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
USB list <linux-usb@vger.kernel.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzej.p@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove VLAIS usage from gadget code - alternate patch
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 17:12:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5242002A.6050507@converseincode.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1380045419-10367-1-git-send-email-charlebm@gmail.com>
On 09/24/13 13:56, charlebm@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
>
> The use of variable length arrays in structs (VLAIS) in the Linux Kernel code
> precludes the use of compilers which don't implement VLAIS (for instance the
> Clang compiler). This alternate patch calculates offsets into the kmalloc-ed
> memory buffer using macros. The previous patch required multiple kmalloc and
> kfree calls.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Charlebois <charlebm@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Behan Webster <behanw@converseincode.com>
This one uses macros and carves up a single piece of memory from one
kmalloc.
Behan
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Behan Webster
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 17:56 [PATCH] Remove VLAIS usage from gadget code - alternate patch charlebm
2013-09-24 21:12 ` Behan Webster [this message]
2013-09-25 14:35 ` Andrzej Pietrasiewicz
2013-09-25 21:23 charlebm
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