netdev - Re: [patch 2/2] qlcnic: using too much stack

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Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:43:00 -0700
From:	Anirban Chakraborty <anirban.chakraborty@...gic.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
CC:	Amit Salecha <amit.salecha@...gic.com>,
	Linux Driver <Linux-Driver@...gic.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sucheta Chakraborty <sucheta.chakraborty@...gic.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] qlcnic: using too much stack


On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:12 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 09:46:32AM -0700, Anirban Chakraborty wrote:
>> 
>> It looks fine except that I'd use kzalloc instead of kcalloc above.
>> 
> 
> It's no problem to do that, and I'm already respinning the patches but 
> I'm confused.  It looks like pci_info gets initialized correctly.  What
> am I missing?

Your patch is fine except that the preferred way is to use kzalloc over kaclloc. kzalloc does not need that extra
argument that you are passing to kcalloc.

-Anirban--
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