On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:13 PM, Phillip Susi <psusi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 01/10/2014 06:11 PM, Brandt, Todd E wrote: >> Yes yours is simpler, but it also opens a potential memory issue >> by passing a static int as the return location for the error value. >> I think it's just safer to tell the callback to attempt no return >> value at all, and for that you need to expand it into two >> arguments, one for selection, the other for the output address. > > What sort of memory issue? Also isn't there a system NULL page > somewhere that could be used? > I think the static variable is ok. We can be sure that all eh threads are torn down before libata.ko is unloaded. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
