linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/7] iio: Use kmalloc_array() in iio_scan_mask

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Date:   Sat, 24 Sep 2016 17:36:30 +0100
From:   Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, Hartmut Knaack <knaack.h@....de>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Peter Meerwald-Stadler <pmeerw@...erw.net>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] iio: Use kmalloc_array() in iio_scan_mask_set()

On 24/09/16 17:18, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git - initially pushed out
>> as testing for the autobuilders to play with it.
> 
> Thanks for your positive response.
> 
> 
> Do you see any need to improve the software situation around
> the macro "BITS_TO_LONGS" further?
> 
> Do you fiddle with a programming interface like "bitmap_alloc" occasionally?
It might be clearer than having an array allocation as we do after this
patch. Obviously the representation is an array, but it is a little ugly
as it stands!
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
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