staging: wilc1000: WILC1000_DYNAMICALLY_ALLOCATE_MEMROY

Tony Cho tony.cho at atmel.com
Mon Oct 12 02:13:04 UTC 2015



On 2015년 10월 09일 03:47, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 09:29:35PM +0300, Stanislav Kholmanskikh wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I noticed that drivers/staging/wilc1000/Kconfic defines:
>>
>> config WILC1000_DYNAMICALLY_ALLOCATE_MEMROY
>>          bool "Dynamically allocate memory in real time"
>>          ---help---
>>            This choice supports dynamic allocation of the memory
>>            for the receive buffer. The driver will allocate the RX buffer
>>            when it is required.
>>
>>
>> "MEMROY" looks suspicious. Is it a typo (MEMORY?) or by intent?
> Probably a typo, but be sure to see if it lines up with what the code
> expects before changing anything.
>
> Ideally in the end this option should be removed as the driver should
> only do dynamic allocation, no static allocation should be needed.

I agree with Greg's opinion. The team is now restructuring the driver and they will be removed and changed.

Thanks for your valuable opinion,

Tony.

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h



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