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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2023 12:35:30 -0700
From: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
To: Huibin Shi <henrys@...icom-usa.com>,
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Cc: "hb_shi2003@...oo.com" <hb_shi2003@...oo.com>,
Wen Wang <wenw@...icom-usa.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Silicom Platform Driver
On 8/8/23 12:19, Huibin Shi wrote:
> Guenter,
>
> Here is the implementation of devm_kmemdup(), *src is the extra argument
>
> void *devm_kmemdup(struct device *dev, const void *src, size_t len, gfp_t gfp)
> {
> void *p;
>
> p = devm_kmalloc(dev, len, gfp);
> if (p)
> memcpy(p, src, len);
>
> return p;
> }
>
So you don't want to use devm_kmemdup() because of its 'src' argument, and instead
re-implement it locally by using devm_kzalloc() followed by memcpy() ? Really ?
Guenter
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