From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932462AbWGSDGH (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:06:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932466AbWGSDGH (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:06:07 -0400 Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:63503 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932462AbWGSDGF (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Jul 2006 23:06:05 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 22:48:05 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Panagiotis Issaris Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nico@cam.org, patrick@tykepenguin.com, davem@davemloft.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc. Message-ID: <20060719024805.GB3786@tuxdriver.com> Mail-Followup-To: Panagiotis Issaris , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nico@cam.org, patrick@tykepenguin.com, davem@davemloft.net References: <20060719011540.GD30823@lumumba.uhasselt.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060719011540.GD30823@lumumba.uhasselt.be> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 03:15:40AM +0200, Panagiotis Issaris wrote: > From: Panagiotis Issaris > > Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc. The original memsets > did not clear out the entire allocated structure. To my unexperienced > eye, that seemed a bit fishy (or at least a bit weird and inconsistent). > > Signed-off-by: Panagiotis Issaris Signed-off-by: John W. Linville -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com