[PATCH 4/5] firmware loader: do not allocate firmare id separately

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Sun Mar 14 2010 - 03:49:40 EST


fw_id has the same life time as firmware_priv so it makes sense to move
it into firmware_priv structure instead of allocating separately.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
---

drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 16 ++++------------
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 9b4bca0..06ff016 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -85,15 +85,14 @@ static int loading_timeout = 60; /* In seconds */
static DEFINE_MUTEX(fw_lock);

struct firmware_priv {
- char *fw_id;
struct completion completion;
struct firmware *fw;
unsigned long status;
struct page **pages;
int nr_pages;
int page_array_size;
- const char *vdata;
struct timer_list timeout;
+ char fw_id[];
};

static void
@@ -149,7 +148,6 @@ static void fw_dev_release(struct device *dev)
for (i = 0; i < fw_priv->nr_pages; i++)
__free_page(fw_priv->pages[i]);
kfree(fw_priv->pages);
- kfree(fw_priv->fw_id);
kfree(fw_priv);
kfree(dev);

@@ -417,8 +415,8 @@ static int fw_register_device(struct device **dev_p, const char *fw_name,
struct device *device)
{
int retval;
- struct firmware_priv *fw_priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*fw_priv),
- GFP_KERNEL);
+ struct firmware_priv *fw_priv =
+ kzalloc(sizeof(*fw_priv) + strlen(fw_name) + 1 , GFP_KERNEL);
struct device *f_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*f_dev), GFP_KERNEL);

*dev_p = NULL;
@@ -429,14 +427,8 @@ static int fw_register_device(struct device **dev_p, const char *fw_name,
goto error_kfree;
}

+ strcpy(fw_priv->fw_id, fw_name);
init_completion(&fw_priv->completion);
- fw_priv->fw_id = kstrdup(fw_name, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!fw_priv->fw_id) {
- dev_err(device, "%s: Firmware name allocation failed\n",
- __func__);
- retval = -ENOMEM;
- goto error_kfree;
- }

fw_priv->timeout.function = firmware_class_timeout;
fw_priv->timeout.data = (u_long) fw_priv;

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