On Dec 15, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Timur Tabi wrote: > Augment mdiobus_alloc() to take a parameter indicating the number of extra > bytes to allocate for private data. Almost all callers of mdiobus_alloc() > separately allocate a private data structure. By allowing mdiobus_alloc() > to allocate extra memory, the two allocations can be merged into one. > > This patch does not change any of the callers to actually take advantage > of this feature, however. That change can be made by the individual > maintainers at their leisure. For now, all callers ask for zero additional > bytes, which mimics the previous behavior.
Why? Doesn't this just obfuscate things a little, while providing no immediate benefit? Andy _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
