[PATCH v4 1/4] devres: Provide krealloc_array

[Greg KH]

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 11:44:55PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
> (Removed irrelevant recipients), +Cc: coresight ml
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On 15/05/2023 12:55, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 08:55:33AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On 13/05/2023 12:04, Greg KH wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 10:49:38AM +0100, James Clark wrote:
> > > > > There is no krealloc_array equivalent in devres. Users would have to
> > > > > do their own multiplication overflow check so provide one.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Reviewed-by: Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron at huawei.com>
> > > > > Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark at arm.com>
> > > > > ---
> > > > >   Documentation/driver-api/driver-model/devres.rst |  1 +
> > > > >   include/linux/device.h                           | 11 +++++++++++
> > > > >   2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
> 
> ...
> 
> > > Maybe something could be done with some macro magic, but it would
> > > probably end up being worse than just copying them and would affect the
> > > real ones as well. So yeah I can't think of any easy gains either.
> > 
> > Ok, that's good.  Given a lack of objections from others, I'll just take
> > this through my driver core tree in a few days.
> 
> Apologies for hijacking the thread. We have a series for CoreSight[1]
> that depends on this series, which I see that, is queued in your
> driver-core-next.
> 
> I would like to queue [1] for the next version (as there are other
> work that depend on this, e.g., [2]). Do you have any
> recommendations/comments on the proposal ? Are you able to share a
> stable branch which can be merged to coresight/next and queue the
> series ontop ? (PS: I haven't queued anything for coresight/next yet).

You can pull from my driver-core-next branch just fine and assume it
will be stable.  So just pull in that one commit and all should be good
in the future.

thanks,

greg k-h