Re: [PATCH] pinctrl: intel: use FAM for communities
From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Mar 27 2026 - 04:56:25 EST
On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 12:22:20PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 3:41 AM Andy Shevchenko
> <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 12:35:57PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 07:36:27PM -0700, Rosen Penev wrote:
...
> > > What I would like to see is rater special devm_kmalloc_and_dup()-like API
> > > instead of doing this in every driver out of dozens of drivers.
> I defer to the hardening people for that. My suggestion was to
> introduce a kmemdup_flex macro that does kzalloc_flex + memcpy on the
> FAM.
Thanks, please come back with a better approach like kmemdup_flex().
> > You may start with providing a common API for all Intel pin control drivers.
> >
> > Patch series of:
> > - add a new API and new member
> > - convert driver-by-driver in separate changes.
> >
> > Actually why can't it be done like this from the start?
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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko