Re: [PATCHv8] gpio: Remove VLA from gpiolib

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On 05/18/2018 02:12 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2018 at 12:05 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
<geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 10:07 PM, Andy Shevchenko
<andy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:53 PM, Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

+               bits = mask + BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio);
+               memset(mask, 0, BITS_TO_LONGS(chip->ngpio) * sizeof(*mask));

Wouldn't be better

bitmap_zero(mask, chip->ngpio);

?

chip->ngpio is never const, so bitmap_zero() would always fall back to
plain memset().

Yes. But it also much more readable and understandable here.


I wasn't aware of that API. I'll switch to that.
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