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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>, Lion Vollnhals <lion.vollnhals@web.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 00:33:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509130033.11109.dtor_core@ameritech.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84144f0205091221431827b126@mail.gmail.com>

On Monday 12 September 2005 23:43, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >-      cls = kmalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >+      cls = kzalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL);
> > >
> > >
> > maybe, the better way is to write `*cls' instead of `struct class',
> > better for further changes
> 
> Please note that some maintainers don't like it. I at least could not
> sneak in patches like these to drivers/usb/ because I had changed
> sizeof.
> 

And given the fact that Greg maintains driver core it probably won't be
accepted here either :)

FWIW I also prefer spelling out the structure I am allocating.

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-13  5:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-12 22:10 [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-12 22:47 ` Lion Vollnhals
2005-09-13  5:41   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-13 11:27     ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-12 22:58 ` Jiri Slaby
2005-09-13  4:43   ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-13  5:33     ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2005-09-13  6:42       ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13  7:02         ` Pekka J Enberg
2005-09-13  7:42           ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-13 16:31             ` Pekka Enberg
2005-09-14  5:02             ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-09-14  9:58               ` Nikita Danilov
2005-09-13 23:28         ` Paul Jackson
2005-09-14  9:33           ` Bernd Petrovitsch

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