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From: Vitaly Bordug <vbordug@ru•mvista.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades•com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded list <linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] identify_ppc_sys_by_name_and_id function implementation final
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 19:25:20 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42FB6DE0.4070506@ru.mvista.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050811053032.GF5665@dmt.cnet>

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Kumar Gala wrote:
> 
>>+static int __init find_chip_by_name_and_id(char *name, u32 id)
>>+{
>>+    int ret = -1;
>>+    unsigned int i = 0;
>>+    unsigned int j = 0;
>>+    unsigned int dups = 0;
>>+
>>+    unsigned int matched[count_sys_specs()];
>>
>>Is is legit in the kernel to use dynamically sized array?
> 
> 
> kmalloc() is certainly safer - why not use it? 
Practically , version with kmalloc works, but  setup_arch and thus this 
function is called before mem_init, so I just wonder if kmalloc can 
handle this case. On the other hand, I don't like to deal with
alloc_bootmem() if mem_init_done!=1 and kmalloc otherwise (like ocp 
does) just for the temporary buffer.

But it's the only _right_ way (or I 've missed something) - sure I'll 
follow it.

-- 
Sincerely,
Vitaly

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-11 15:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-10 17:15 [RFC][PATCH] identify_ppc_sys_by_name_and_id function implementation Vitaly Bordug
2005-08-10 17:46 ` [PATCH] identify_ppc_sys_by_name_and_id function implementation (braces fixed) Vitaly Bordug
2005-08-10 18:01   ` [PATCH] identify_ppc_sys_by_name_and_id function implementation final Vitaly Bordug
2005-08-10 19:16     ` Kumar Gala
2005-08-11  5:30       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-08-11 15:25         ` Vitaly Bordug [this message]
2005-08-11 22:45           ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-08-12 15:37             ` Vitaly Bordug
2005-08-12 16:18               ` Kumar Gala
2005-08-12 16:30                 ` Vitaly Bordug
2005-08-12 19:48                   ` Kumar Gala
2005-08-16 13:36                     ` Vitaly Bordug

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