Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] dmaengine: stm32-mdma: Fix incomplete Hw descriptors allocator

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Fri Apr 13 2018 - 04:39:55 EST


Hi Vinod,

On Fri, Apr 13, 2018 at 6:02 AM, Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 04:44:39PM +0200, Pierre-Yves MORDRET wrote:
>
>> struct stm32_mdma_desc {
>> struct virt_dma_desc vdesc;
>> u32 ccr;
>> - struct stm32_mdma_hwdesc *hwdesc;
>> - dma_addr_t hwdesc_phys;
>> bool cyclic;
>> u32 count;
>> + struct stm32_mdma_desc_node node[];
>
> some ppl use node[0] for this but i think either is fine..

node[] is the correct one, node[0] may hide future bugs, cfr. commit
a158531f3c92467d ("gpio: 74x164: Fix crash during .remove()")

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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