> -----Original Message-----
> From: Antonio Ospite [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 28 May, 2015 18:58
> To: Tirdea, Irina
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov; Bastien Nocera; [email protected]; 
> [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/9] input: goodix: fix variable length array warning
> 
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 15:47:38 +0300
> Irina Tirdea <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Fix sparse warning:
> > drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c:182:26: warning:
> > Variable length array is used.
> >
> > Replace the variable length array with fixed length.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Irina Tirdea <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c 
> > b/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> > index c2e785c..dac1b3c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> > +++ b/drivers/input/touchscreen/goodix.c
> > @@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ static void goodix_ts_report_touch(struct 
> > goodix_ts_data *ts, u8 *coor_data)
> >   */
> >  static void goodix_process_events(struct goodix_ts_data *ts)
> >  {
> > -   u8  point_data[1 + GOODIX_CONTACT_SIZE * ts->max_touch_num];
> > +   u8  point_data[1 + GOODIX_CONTACT_SIZE * GOODIX_MAX_CONTACTS];
> 
> Hi,
> 

Hi Antonio,

> this fixes the warning from sparse, but also changes the semantics of
> the code: ts->max_touch_num is less that GOODIX_MAX_CONTACTS for 5
> touches devices and in this case we'll end up using more memory than is
> necessary.
> 

I wasn't sure if it is better to save the 5 bytes or fix the warning, so I sent 
this to get some more input.
Thanks for the feedback, I will  drop this patch.

Thanks,
Irina

> Thanks,
>    Antonio
> 
> >     int touch_num;
> >     int i;
> >
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