linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] regset ->get() API

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=whdat=wfwKh5rF3MuCbTxhcFwaGqmdsCXXv=H=kDERTOw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:31:56 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] regset ->get() API

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 3:29 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> We do know that caller does not want more than the value it has passed in
> 'size' argument, though.

Ok, fair enough. That's probably a good way to handle the "allocate in
the caller".

So then I have no issues with that approach.

          Linus