Re: [PATCH v4] usb: core: Add "quirks" parameter for usbcore

From: Matthew Wilcox
Date: Wed Feb 28 2018 - 11:31:29 EST


On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 12:01:40AM +0800, Kai Heng Feng wrote:
> > Also, you won't need to use a linked list for this; you can just allocate
> > an array of quirks.
>
> I use linked list because the total quirks number is known after the entire
> string gets parsed.
> Do you suggest that I should just alloc a predefined number (like 16) quirk
> entries, instead of doing it dynamically?

I'd just do:

unsigned int nr = 1;
for (i = 0; i < len; i++)
if (str[i] == ',')
nr++;
kcalloc(nr, sizeof(struct), GFP_KERNEL);