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> +static int f81534_set_normal_register(struct usb_device *dev, u16 reg, u8 
> data)
> +{
> +     size_t count = F81534_USB_MAX_RETRY;
> +     int status;
> +     u8 *tmp;
> +
> +     tmp = kmalloc(sizeof(u8), GFP_KERNEL);
> +     if (!tmp)
> +             return -ENOMEM;

You end up doing huge numbers of tiny allocation and frees in some of the
code paths. I think it would be better to allocate them at a higher level
as they are not that cheap on CPU time.

> +static int f81534_read_data(struct usb_serial *usbserial, u32 address,
> +                             size_t size, unsigned char *buf)
> +{

Is a particularly good example - you do 4 mallocs plus two per byte of
data.

Alan

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