From: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
"Andy Lutomirski" <luto@kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2016 14:07:31 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160114140731.0b324e92@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALCETrWUJ+5DowyLFDp7N_iNLsday4uKX3iO3NMC8Pfqma=O7w@mail.gmail.com>
> Jean, am I right that drivers must not store pointers to DMI tables
> that they find through dmi_walk? Is there any alternative interface
> that could be used to get a longer-lived pointer to DMI tables, or
> should drivers just parse them and copy out any info needed from the
> dmi_walk callback?
The easiest long term solution might be to just map the dmi buffer once
and keep it. It's not that huge so it's not a big address space hog.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-14 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-03 14:52 Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-11 21:58 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-12 14:25 ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-13 22:28 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-14 9:52 ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-15 13:23 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-14 14:07 ` One Thousand Gnomes [this message]
2016-01-14 20:16 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-15 13:27 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-15 16:27 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-15 17:53 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-15 20:00 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-19 9:12 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-14 10:29 ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-18 15:44 ` Jean Delvare
2016-01-18 18:09 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-18 18:19 ` Andy Lutomirski
2016-01-19 9:19 ` Jean Delvare
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