linux-kernel - Re: mtd/ftl: Use kmalloc_array() in build

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Date:   Thu, 12 Jan 2017 17:58:32 +0100
From:   Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:     Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: mtd/ftl: Use kmalloc_array() in build_maps()

On 01/12/2017 05:50 PM, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
>> The indentation has been changed and the new one looks wrong...
> 
> The source code formatting contained various open issues before already.
> 
> 
>> If you want to fix the indentation to make it compliant with the Linux
>> coding style, do it on the whole file so every thing is uniform.
> 
> Such a development task is too much for me today.

Let me officially NAK this patch.

>> Reviewing such dummy/automatic patches is a pure waste of time,
>> so personally I think we should just ignore them.
> 
> How much do you care for the usage of a function like “kmalloc_array”?

Not at all, there are more pressing issues.

-- 
Best regards,
Marek Vasut