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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] iio: Use kmalloc_array() in iio_scan_mask_set()
To: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git - initially pushed out
> as testing for the autobuilders to play with it.

Thanks for your positive response.


Do you see any need to improve the software situation around
the macro "BITS_TO_LONGS" further?

Do you fiddle with a programming interface like "bitmap_alloc" occasionally?

Regards,
Markus