linux-kernel - Re: [[RESEND]PATCH staging/speakup v3 3/3] use speakup

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Date:   Fri, 24 Mar 2017 09:43:41 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     "Pranay Kr. Srivastava" <pranjas@...il.com>
Cc:     w.d.hubbs@...il.com, chris@...-brannons.com, kirk@...sers.ca,
        samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org, sfr@...b.auug.org.au,
        speakup@...ux-speakup.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [[RESEND]PATCH staging/speakup v3 3/3] use speakup_allocate as
 per required context

On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 02:07:11PM +0530, Pranay Kr. Srivastava wrote:
> speakup_allocate used GFP_ATOMIC for allocations
> even while during initialization due to it's use
> in notifier call.

Is that a problem?

> Pass GFP_ flags as well to speakup_allocate depending
> on the context it is called in.

At init, we should be fine to use GFP_ATOMIC, so is this change really
needed?

thanks,

greg k-h