Excessive frame size

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Thu Jun 23 21:53:40 UTC 2011


On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:10:01AM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> In a MIPS allyesconfig build I got the following warning:
> 
>   CC [M]  drivers/staging/vt6656/int.o
> drivers/staging/vt6656/iwctl.c: In function ‘iwctl_giwaplist’:
> drivers/staging/vt6656/iwctl.c:787:1: warning: the frame size of 1288 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
> 
> That's a huge stackpig already on a 32-bit kernel and it will only be bigger
> on a 64-bit kernel!

Yes it is, that's why people are rewriting this from scratch in a "real"
driver so we can delete this one soon :)

greg k-h



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