Re: [PATCH -next] watchdog: diag288_wdt: use kmemdup() to allocate memory

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On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 03:06:24PM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 05:35:40AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > On 2/2/23 05:22, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 02, 2023 at 03:41:27PM +0800, Yang Yingliang wrote:
> > > > Use kmemdup() helper instead of open-coding to simplify
> > > > the code when allocating ebc_cmd.
> > > > 
> > > > Generated by: scripts/coccinelle/api/memdup.cocci
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang <yangyingliang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >   drivers/watchdog/diag288_wdt.c | 3 +--
> > > >   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > Thanks, but this code will be changed differently with the next merge
> > > window. Therefore I will not apply patch.
> > 
> > It looks like you decided to bypass even sending your patches to the watchdog
> > mailing list. I know I have not been as responsive there as I should be,
> > but that it no reason to bypass the maintainers completely.
> 
> This is s390 only code which is broken. I doubt that anybody cares
> about s390 specific inline assemblies.
> 

s/s390/<pick your platform>/g

I guess with that logic we can abolish watchdog subsystem maintenance
pretty much completely. After all, pretty much all watchdogs are
only of interest for a limited audience.

Guenter



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