Re: [PATCH] iwlwifi: Don't use buffer allocated on the stack forled names

From: Zhu Yi
Date: Sun Aug 03 2008 - 23:39:50 EST


On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 21:57 +0200, Sven Wegener wrote:
> Having the buffer on the stack and even re-using it for all led
> devices is bad.
> Not being able to resolve the name member of the led device structure
> to a
> meaningful value leads to confusion during ad-hoc debugging and
> potential
> breakage in the future, if we ever decide to access the name member
> outside of
> the registration function. Move the buffer to our private per led
> device
> structures so that it is accessible after registration.
>
> A quick grep didn't yield any occurence of using the led device name
> parameter
> outside of the led device registration function, so currently we
> should already
> be safe for normal operation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
-yi

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