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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tiwai@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8)
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:34:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040609113455.U22989@build.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200406082124.i58LOuOL016163@melkki.cs.helsinki.fi>; from penberg@cs.helsinki.fi on Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 12:24:56AM +0300

* Pekka J Enberg (penberg@cs.helsinki.fi) wrote:
>  /**
> + * kcalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
> + * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
> + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
> + */
> +void *kcalloc(size_t size, int flags)
> +{
> +	void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
> +	if (ret)
> +		memset(ret, 0, size);
> +	return ret;
> +}

This looks more like the kzalloc() that pops up every now and then.
Wouldn't it make more sense to give kcalloc() a true calloc() style
interface?

thanks,
-chris
-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-09 18:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-08 21:24 [PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8) Pekka J Enberg
2004-06-09 18:34 ` Chris Wright [this message]
2004-06-09 20:13   ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-09 20:21     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-09 20:40       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2004-06-09 20:57       ` Chris Wright
2004-06-09 20:57       ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-09 20:59         ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-09 21:07           ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-11 10:09             ` Takashi Iwai
2004-06-11 10:43               ` Pekka J Enberg
2004-06-11 10:53               ` Pekka J Enberg
2004-06-09 21:00         ` [PATCH] " Chris Wright
2004-06-09 21:18           ` Pekka Enberg
2004-06-10  5:08         ` dean gaudet
2004-06-10 12:32           ` Dave Jones

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