linux-kernel - Re: Libertas: Association request to the driver failed

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Message-Id: <200908091310.56919.mb@bu3sch.de>
Date:	Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:10:56 +0200
From:	Michael Buesch <mb@...sch.de>
To:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Cc:	Daniel Mack <daniel@...aq.de>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@...driver.com>,
	libertas-dev@...ts.infradead.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Libertas: Association request to the driver failed

On Sunday 09 August 2009 13:11:20 Roel Kluin wrote:
> @@ -43,21 +44,21 @@ static int get_common_rates(struct lbs_private *priv,
>  	u16 *rates_size)
>  {
>  	u8 *card_rates = lbs_bg_rates;
> -	size_t num_card_rates = sizeof(lbs_bg_rates);
>  	int ret = 0, i, j;
> -	u8 tmp[30];
> +	u8 tmp[*rates_size * ARRAY_SIZE(lbs_bg_rates)];

Is it a good idea to use dynamic stack arrays in the kernel?
What about kmalloc for dynamic allocations?

-- 
Greetings, Michael.
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