linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: do not allocate huge txbuf

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Message-ID: <c47da3b7-5082-4358-5556-7b9fdacadd5d@tronnes.org>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jun 2016 20:42:27 +0200
From:	Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>
To:	Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...il.com>
Cc:	Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: do not allocate huge txbuf

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Den 09.06.2016 19:18, skrev Michal Suchanek:
> Hello,
>
> On 9 June 2016 at 18:20, Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org> wrote:
>> Den 09.06.2016 17:08, skrev Michal Suchanek:
>>> txbuflen can be set to arbitrary value by user and it is also set
>>> automagically to the maximum transfer size of the SPI master controller.
>>
>> AFAICT this is a result of your previous patch. Please make a new version of
>> your previous patch with this fix in it. Also make a note in that thread
>> that
> That patch is pretty much independent and just exposes this problem
> under different circumstances. The txbuflen can be also set by the
> user.
>
>> a new version is made so Greg doesn't pull it when he sees my ack. He
>> handles a large volume of patches so let's make it as easy as we can for
>> him.
> Which would be letting in the patches separately imho.


Ok,

Acked-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@...nnes.org>

> Thanks
>
> Michal
>