netdev - Re: [PATCH RESENT] staging: r8188eu: Move writeN buffer off stack

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Date:	Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:12:03 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESENT] staging: r8188eu: Move writeN buffer off stack

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 04:39:04PM -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
> The driver places a 254-byte buffer on the stack when writing long output.
> To reduce stack usage, a buffer of the required length is acquired using
> kmemdup().
> 

The patch is badly whitespace dammaged.

regards,
dan carpenter

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