On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 04:59:43PM +0100, walter harms wrote: > >> or is it possible to pass one byte > >> in a register ? (aka char/int) without allocating ? > > > > Nope, the USB host controllers must be able to DMA to this memory > > location, so you have to allocate it dynamically, sorry. > > > > thanks, > > thx for clarification. > > @Kumar Amit Mehta: > Would you mind to add this as comment ? Allocating one byte does not > look clever so maybe will come up with the idea of changing that. > That can't happen. The reason is already recorded in the git history. Greg and Ian know that DMA to stack memory doesn't work. Most maintainers know about that. If someone changed it back then Fengguang would send an automatic email about it as soon as it was committed to a public git tree. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
