Re: [PATCH v7 6/6] mailbox: Add support for i.MX7D messaging unit

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On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>>
>>> +struct imx_mu_con_priv {
>>> +       int                     irq;
>>> +       unsigned int            idx;
>>> +       char                    *irq_desc;
>>>
>> Having      char  irq_desc[16];    seems simpler than free/kfree upon
>> each startup/shutdown. Simply use snprintf() in probe().
>
> Currently all known configurations use one or two channels. I don't see
> any sense to allocate all at the probe.
>
Just because only 2 out of 4 channels are being used, it doesn't make sense?

What is the concern?  "wasting" 16x2 bytes of memory?  How many bytes,
LOC and execution time does kasprintf() waste?
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