linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging iio: Replace kmalloc with local variable

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Message-ID: <1307450354.1516.23.camel@anish-desktop>
Date:	Tue, 07 Jun 2011 18:09:14 +0530
From:	anish <anish198519851985@...il.com>
To:	gregkh@...e.de, jic23@....ac.uk, manuel.stahl@....fraunhofer.de,
	lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging iio: Replace kmalloc with local variable

From: anish kumar <anish198519851985@...il.com>

replaced kmalloc with local variable as I2C(in this case) doesn't require
kmalloc memory it can do with stack memory.

Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c
index 1037087..9462230 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/iio/adc/max1363_core.c
@@ -207,15 +207,12 @@ static int max1363_write_basic_config(struct i2c_client *client,
 				      unsigned char d2)
 {
 	int ret;
-	u8 *tx_buf = kmalloc(2, GFP_KERNEL);
+	u8 tx_buf[2];
 
-	if (!tx_buf)
-		return -ENOMEM;
 	tx_buf[0] = d1;
 	tx_buf[1] = d2;
 
 	ret = i2c_master_send(client, tx_buf, 2);
-	kfree(tx_buf);
 
 	return (ret > 0) ? 0 : ret;
 }
-- 
1.7.0.4


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