netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] brcmsmac: Use kstrdup to simplify code

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Message-ID: <559EBF38.70107@broadcom.com>
Date:	Thu, 9 Jul 2015 20:36:40 +0200
From:	Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
To:	Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	<kvalo@...eaurora.org>, <brudley@...adcom.com>,
	<frankyl@...adcom.com>, <meuleman@...adcom.com>
CC:	<linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	<brcm80211-dev-list@...adcom.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] brcmsmac: Use kstrdup to simplify code

On 07/08/2015 10:22 PM, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> Replace a kmalloc+strcpy by an equivalent kstrdup in order to improve
> readability.

Not sure if readability is really the issue here. At most it is a small 
reduction of driver code by using kstrdup(). Anyway, the patch looks fine so

Acked-by: Arend van Spriel <arend@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> ---
> v2: fix the subject
>
>   drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c | 4 +---
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> index 4813506..8a6c077 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmsmac/mac80211_if.c
> @@ -1476,9 +1476,7 @@ struct brcms_timer *brcms_init_timer(struct brcms_info *wl,
>   	wl->timers = t;
>
>   #ifdef DEBUG
> -	t->name = kmalloc(strlen(name) + 1, GFP_ATOMIC);
> -	if (t->name)
> -		strcpy(t->name, name);
> +	t->name = kstrdup(name, GFP_ATOMIC);
>   #endif
>
>   	return t;
>

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