On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 11:32 PM, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> wrote:
> using kasprintf would entail;
> - a local char* var,
> - a call to the string-producer (show_ddebug_query above)
> - a kfree(var)
> all in the caller context.
> Using a preallocated string buffer avoids this,
> and is slightly more efficient wrt kallocs.

I'm still missing an explanation why the static variable "prbuf_query"
is necessary. Wouldn't eliminating that static variable make the code
more elegant ?

Bart.