linux-kernel - Re: usb_get_status(): what a weird implementation !

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Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:22:23 +0200
From:	"Francis Moreau" <francis.moro@...il.com>
To:	"Oliver Neukum" <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	"David Brownell" <david-b@...bell.net>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: usb_get_status(): what a weird implementation !

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:
>
> Well, we have:
> asm-mips/mach-ip32/kmalloc.h:#define ARCH_KMALLOC_MINALIGN      128
> That's 256 bytes, that is 1/16 of the stack.

yep but I wouldn't call such beast an embedded system ;)

And on this system stack size is 8 KiB.

But I agree a plain stack allocation as I showed is not usable.

-- 
Francis
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