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SubjectRe: linux-next: build warning after merge of the net-next tree
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On 03/13/2018 10:33 AM, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 06:46:24 -0500
>
>> Hi Stephen,
>>
>> On 03/13/2018 01:11 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> After merging the net-next tree, today's linux-next build (sparc
>>> defconfig) produced this warning:
>>> net/core/pktgen.c: In function 'pktgen_if_write':
>>> net/core/pktgen.c:1710:1: warning: the frame size of 1048 bytes is
>>> larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=]
>>> }
>>> ^
>>> Introduced by commit
>>> 35951393bbff ("pktgen: Remove VLA usage")
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the report.
>>
>> David:
>>
>> If this code is not going to be executed very often [1], then I think
>> it is safe to use dynamic memory allocation instead, as this is not
>> going to impact the performance.
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>> [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/3/9/630
>
> Sure, that works.
>
> It is only invoked when pktgen configuration changes are made.
>

OK. I'll send a new patch for this.

Thanks
--
Gustavo

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