linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/8] param: use free hook for charp

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Date:	Fri, 30 Oct 2009 11:14:43 +0100
From:	Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
To:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] param: use free hook for charp

Hi Rusty,

sorry for the delayed reply; I finally got back to work now.

At Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:51:29 +1030,
Rusty Russell wrote:
> 
> 
> Instead of using a "I kmalloced this" flag, we keep track of the kmalloced
> strings and use that list to check if we need to kfree (in practice, the
> list is very short).
> 
> This means that kparams can be const again.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

This is indeed a simple solution!  I like it.


thanks,

Takashi
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