[U-Boot] [PATCH v1] fs: fat: dynamically allocate memory for temporary buffer

Tom Rini trini at konsulko.com
Thu Dec 6 15:13:15 UTC 2018


On Thu, Dec 06, 2018 at 02:58:52PM +0100, Stefan Agner wrote:

> From: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>
> 
> Drop the statically allocated get_contents_vfatname_block and
> dynamically allocate a buffer only if required. This saves
> 64KiB of memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Agner <stefan.agner at toradex.com>

Is there a particular issue you're running into here, or just that what
we're doing is just generally not a great idea?  I ask since I need to
poke git history to make sure that the thing at the back of my mind
about us needing to do this for some annoying boot case is intentional.
Thanks!

-- 
Tom
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