netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/4] pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access

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Date:   Sun, 5 Feb 2017 01:30:39 +0100
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        Petko Manolov <petkan@...leusys.com>,
        Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer 
        <lisandro@...ian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/4] pegasus: Use heap buffers for all register access

On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 04:56:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Allocating USB buffers on the stack is not portable, and no longer
> works on x86_64 (with VMAP_STACK enabled as per default).

It's never worked on other platforms, so these should go to the stable
releases please.

thanks,

greg k-h