On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Feb 2008, Mike Isely wrote:
>
[...]
>
> While it's clear that your patch didn't cause this, nevertheless the
> fact remains that one should never do DMA to addresses on the stack.
> While it works okay on x86, there are other architectures on which it
> won't work. The feature_buffer storage should be allocated
> dynamically, by kmalloc().
>
> Alan Stern
>
Understood. However this patch certainly doesn't make that situation
any worse than it already was so I hope this doesn't hold up its
acceptance. I'll be happy to follow up with another patch which changes
that to a kmalloc'ed buffer.
-Mike
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