From: Greg K H <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat•com>
Cc: "Arvind R." <arvino55@gmail•com>, Michal Marek <mmarek@suse•cz>,
linuxppc-dev@lists•ozlabs.org, Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel•com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:28:51 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120419152851.GD31543@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334841690-305-1-git-send-email-mchehab@redhat.com>
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:21:30AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Kernel kobjects have rigid rules: each container object should be
> dynamically allocated, and can't be allocated into a single kmalloc.
>
> EDAC never obeyed this rule: it has a single malloc function that
> allocates all needed data into a single kzalloc.
>
> As this is not accepted anymore, change the allocation schema of the
> EDAC *_info structs to enforce this Kernel standard.
Very nice work, thanks for doing this:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <1334608729-30803-1-git-send-email-mchehab@redhat.com>
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 07/25] edac: Rename the parent dev to pdev Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-16 20:38 ` [EDAC ABI v13 24/25] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-17 21:17 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-19 13:14 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-22 6:37 ` Joe Perches
2012-04-19 13:21 ` [PATCH] " Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2012-04-19 15:28 ` Greg K H [this message]
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