On Wed, Oct 14 2020 at 12:14, Alan Stern wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 04:52:18PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote: >> From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >> Having two copies of the same code doesn't make the code more readable and >> allocating a buffer of 1 byte for a synchronous operation is a pointless >> exercise. > > Not so. In fact, it is required, because a portion of a structure > cannot be mapped for DMA unless it is aligned at a cache line boundary. > >> Add a byte buffer to struct keyspan_pda_private which can be used >> instead. The buffer is only used in open() and tty->write(). > > This won't work. Ok. >> + res = usb_control_msg(serial->dev, usb_rcvctrlpipe(serial->dev, 0), >> + 6, /* write_room */ >> + USB_TYPE_VENDOR | USB_RECIP_INTERFACE | USB_DIR_IN, >> + 0, /* value */ >> + 0, /* index */ >> + &priv->query_buf, >> + 1, >> + 2000); > > Instead, consider using the new usb_control_msg_recv() API. But it > might be better to allocate the buffer once and for all. Let me have a look. Thanks, tglx