linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] ASoC: codec2codec: deal with params when necessary

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Date:   Thu, 25 Jul 2019 13:55:34 +0100
From:   Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:     Jerome Brunet <jbrunet@...libre.com>
Cc:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Kevin Hilman <khilman@...libre.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-amlogic@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] ASoC: codec2codec: deal with params when necessary

On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 06:24:02PM +0200, Jerome Brunet wrote:

> Also, params does not need to be dynamically allocated as it does not
> need to survive the event.

It's dynamically allocated because it's a pretty large structure and so
the limited stack sizes the kernel has make it a bit uncomfortable to
put it on the stack.

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