Re: [PATCH] devfs (2/7) - minor miscdev changes

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 09:29:00AM -0700, Roland Dreier wrote:
>  int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
>  {
> -	static devfs_handle_t devfs_handle, dir;
>  	struct miscdevice *c;
> +	char buf[256];
> 
>     Wouldn't it be better not to have a 256-byte buffer on the stack?

You're probably right.  But 64 bytes should be enough anyway - that's
what devfs uses everywhere else.