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From: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: remove drm_calloc()
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 21:15:21 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <21d7e99705070604153270c475@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1120461167.3174.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

> > The DRM has wrappers for these function due to it being used on other
> > OS'es (BSD mainly)
> 
> yes and? how about naming that wrapper "kcalloc()" instead.... which
> would make the linux "wrapper" empty and the bsd wrapper just trivial
> las well ?

drm_calloc doesn't have the same interface as kcalloc... it gets
passed an area parameter and we use it on other OSes.. I'm not going
to split Linux and BSD drivers just for a trivial little thing like
this.. I'll fix the wrapper like I said..

Dave.

      reply	other threads:[~2005-07-06 15:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-04  6:26 [PATCH] drm: remove drm_calloc() Alexey Dobriyan
2005-07-04  6:33 ` Dave Airlie
2005-07-04  7:12   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-07-06 11:15     ` Dave Airlie [this message]

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