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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:14:15 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Xin Chen <xin.chen2@oss.qualcomm.com>
Cc: jirislaby@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, liulzhao@qti.qualcomm.com,
	cheng.jiang@oss.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1] tty: n_tty: use kvzalloc/kvfree for line discipline
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 09:55:26PM +0800, Xin Chen wrote:
> Note: checkpatch warns "Prefer kvzalloc_obj over kvzalloc with
> sizeof", but kvzalloc_obj() was introduced after v6.6 and is not
> available in the target kernel, so kvzalloc(sizeof(*ldata),
> GFP_KERNEL) is used intentionally.

What do you mean "target kernel"?  This is for 7.3-final, right?

confused,

greg k-h