On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 02:31:47PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 10:48:25PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 12:30:26PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 09:27:03PM +0300, Jarkko Sakkinen wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 04:34:36AM -0400, Nayna Jain wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > -     struct dentry **bios_dir;
> > > > > +     struct dentry *bios_dir[3];
> > > > > +     unsigned int bios_dir_count;
> > > > 
> > > > You should rather have a four entry array and use a NULL terminator.
> > > 
> > > Why? Then everything has to compute the length before doing
> > > anything. The basic ops are 'append to back' and 'pop off back' which
> > > require length.
> > 
> > One variable less to struct tpm_chip. The loop that removes the files
> > simply can continue until NULL is encountered.
> 
> We've been over this, the loop has to remove them in reverse over.
> 
> Why are you so concerned about size of tpm_chip??

It's not the size. It's the added complexity.

I'll look into revising this commit a bit in order in order to move
things forward...

/Jarkko

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