From: Salvatore Mesoraca > Sent: 13 March 2018 22:01 > 2018-03-13 20:58 GMT+01:00 Vivien Didelot > <vivien.dide...@savoirfairelinux.com>: > > Hi Salvatore, > > Hi Vivien, > > > Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesorac...@gmail.com> writes: > > > >> dsa_switch's num_ports is currently fixed to DSA_MAX_PORTS. So we avoid > >> 2 VLAs[1] by using DSA_MAX_PORTS instead of ds->num_ports. > >> > >> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/7/621 > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Salvatore Mesoraca <s.mesorac...@gmail.com> > > > > NAK. > > > > We are in the process to remove hardcoded limits such as DSA_MAX_PORTS > > and DSA_MAX_SWITCHES, so we have to stick with ds->num_ports. > > I can rewrite the patch using kmalloc. > Although, if ds->num_ports will always be less than or equal to 12, it > should be better to > just use DSA_MAX_PORTS.
Isn't using DECLARE_BITMAP() completely OTT when the maximum size is less than the number of bits in a word? David