From: "J.A. Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk,
Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] kmalloc + memset(foo, 0, bar) = kmalloc0
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:58:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030911215805.GA7221@werewolf.able.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030911170944.GG29532@mail.jlokier.co.uk>; from jamie@shareable.org on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 19:09:44 +0200
On 09.11, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote:
> > Bad choice of name - too easy to confuse with kmalloc().
>
> kmalloc_and_zero() would be much clearer.
>
Why not kcalloc() ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-11 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-11 13:40 [RFC][PATCH] kmalloc + memset(foo, 0, bar) = kmalloc0 Rolf Eike Beer
2003-09-11 13:45 ` viro
2003-09-11 14:11 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2003-09-11 17:09 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-09-11 21:58 ` J.A. Magallon [this message]
2003-09-11 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-11 22:25 ` J.A. Magallon
2003-09-11 13:58 ` Breno Silva
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