Re: [PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.

Pekka Enberg
2006-07-21T06:58:44Z

On 7/21/06, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> wrote:
> > - if (!(handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL)))
> > + handle = kzalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL);
> > + if (!handle)
> > return NULL;
>
> sizeof(*handle)?

In general, yes. However, some maintainers don't like that, so I would
recommend to keep them as-is unless you get a clear ack from the
maintainer to change it.