linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 04/35] brcmfmac: firmware: Support having multiple alt paths

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Message-ID: <d608ab82-cffe-0d66-99d2-d0abd214dd0d@gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 7 Jan 2022 06:12:42 +0300
From:   Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 04/35] brcmfmac: firmware: Support having multiple alt
 paths

06.01.2022 20:58, Andy Shevchenko пишет:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 7:40 PM Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@...il.com> wrote:
>> 05.01.2022 16:22, Hector Martin пишет:
>>> On 05/01/2022 07.09, Dmitry Osipenko wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>> I'm confused; the array size is constant. What would index contain and
>>> why would would brcm_free_alt_fw_paths use it? Just as an iterator
>>> variable instead of using a local variable? Or do you mean count?
>>
>> Yes, use index for the count of active entries in the alt_paths[].
>>
>> for (i = 0; i < alt_paths.index; i++)
>>         kfree(alt_paths.path[i]);
>>
>> alt_paths.index = 0;
>>
>> or
>>
>> while (alt_paths.index)
>>         kfree(alt_paths.path[--alt_paths.index]);
> 
> Usual pattern is
> 
>   while (x--)
>     kfree(x);
> 
> easier to read, extend (if needed).
> 

That is indeed a usual patter for the driver removal code paths. I
didn't like to have index of struct brcmf_fw underflowed, but I see now
that fwctx is dynamically created and freed during driver probe, so it
should be fine to use that usual pattern here too.