On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 21:42 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > The current version of rtlwifi for USB operations uses kmalloc to > acquire a 32-bit buffer for reading. trivia: > +++ wireless-testing-new/drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/usb.c [] > @@ -955,6 +947,13 @@ int __devinit rtl_usb_probe(struct usb_i > return -ENOMEM; > } > rtlpriv = hw->priv; > + rtlpriv->usb_data = kzalloc(RTL_USB_MAX_RX_COUNT * sizeof(u32), > + GFP_KERNEL); > + if (!rtlpriv->usb_data) { > + RT_ASSERT(false, "USB data buffer allocation failed\n"); The RT_ASSERT isn't really necessary as kzalloc already does a dump_stack on allocation failure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html