[RESEND V2 0/3] cover letter of wilc1000 patches

Chaehyun Lim chaehyun.lim at gmail.com
Thu Jul 30 12:03:48 UTC 2015


I'm sorry that I have mistake the number of kmalloc changes. The total
change is 6, not 4.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Chaehyun Lim <chaehyun.lim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Greg
>
> I'm sorry that I did not say whether GFP_ATOMIC should be used or not.
> This is my review on it. If it's not correct, please give me any comment or direction.
>
> First patch has 4 sites of kmalloc change in coreconfigurator.c
> First one, it is used for gps8ConfigPacket at CoreconfiguratorInit and CoreConfiguratorDeInit.
> I think it should be removed next time because I cannot find anywhere to use it.
> Then, it is okay to change flag as GFP_KERNEL.
>
> Other three changes are used to handle host interface message within a kernel thread.
> The manipulation of host interface message is not called on IRQ context and I could not
> find any spin lock inside function.
>
> If this patches are accepted, I will try to continue to change WILC_MALLOC macro as kmalloc.
> I always appreciate your comment and advice.
>
> Thanks
> Chaehyun Lim
>
>
> Chaehyun Lim (3):
>   staging: wilc1000: coreconfigurator.c: remove WILC_MALLOC
>   staging: wilc1000: coreconfigurator.c: add kmalloc error check
>   staging: wilc1000: coreconfigurator.c: fix kmalloc error check
>
>  drivers/staging/wilc1000/coreconfigurator.c | 38 +++++++++++++++++------------
>  1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 1.9.1
>


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