linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/7] drivers/counter: add local variable for newly allocated attribute

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Message-ID: <2023100912-glare-broiling-cc7d@gregkh>
Date:   Mon, 9 Oct 2023 19:28:26 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@...os.com>
Cc:     William Breathitt Gray <william.gray@...aro.org>,
        linux-iio@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] drivers/counter: add local variable for newly
 allocated attribute_group**

On Mon, Oct 09, 2023 at 06:57:37PM +0200, Max Kellermann wrote:
> This allows the compiler to keep the pointer in a register and
> prepares for making the struct field "const".

Again, nothing about registers makes sense here.

thanks,

greg k-h