[PATCH] edac: change the mem allocation scheme to make Documentation/kobject.txt happy
Greg K H
gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Apr 20 01:28:51 EST 2012
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 10:21:30AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Kernel kobjects have rigid rules: each container object should be
> dynamically allocated, and can't be allocated into a single kmalloc.
>
> EDAC never obeyed this rule: it has a single malloc function that
> allocates all needed data into a single kzalloc.
>
> As this is not accepted anymore, change the allocation schema of the
> EDAC *_info structs to enforce this Kernel standard.
Very nice work, thanks for doing this:
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
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