netdev - drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c: stack usage problem

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Message-ID: <20061213130526.GC3851@stusta.de>
Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:05:26 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	amitkale@...xen.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c: stack usage problem

<--  snip  -->

...
void netxen_nic_flash_print(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)
{
...
        struct netxen_new_user_info user_info;
...

<--  snip  -->


This allocates 2108 bytes on the stack.

That's too much considering that the complete stack might be only 4 kB.


cu
Adrian

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