netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/4] pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 10:14:44 +0200
From:   Petko Manolov <petkan@...leusys.com>
To:     Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
        <lisandro@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/4] pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access

On 17-02-05 01:30:39, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:56:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Allocating USB buffers on the stack is not portable, and no longer
> > works on x86_64 (with VMAP_STACK enabled as per default).
> 
> It's never worked on other platforms, so these should go to the stable 
> releases please.

As far as i know both drivers works fine on other platforms, though I only 
tested it on arm and mipsel. ;)

Random thought: isn't it better to add the alloc/free code in usb_control_msg() 
and avoid code duplication all over the driver space?


cheers,
Petko