On 12/20/2018 02:20 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 12/19/18 5:06 PM, Marek Vasut wrote: >> Previous patches unconver that ksz_spi_write() is always ever called >> with len = 1, 2 or 4. We can thus drop the if (len > SPI_TX_BUF_LEN) >> check and we can also drop the allocation of the txbuf which is part >> of the driver data. This wastes 256 bytes for no reason and can be >> replaced with 8-byte stack allocated buffer, which is what this patch >> does. This is an intermediate step though, which will go away after >> regmap conversion. > > dev is a kmalloc'd buffer, so dev->txbuf is a DMA-able buffer, that > could be presumably why it was used in the first place, DMA from the > stack is not something safe, but I did not check the core SPI layer or > the SPI bus master driver to see whether they do take care of that already.
Well, I can just squash this and 6/7 and let regmap handle these details. -- Best regards, Marek Vasut