Re: [PATCH 1/6] cpumask: introduce zalloc_cpumask_var

Andrew Morton
2009-06-06T21:58:18Z

On Sat, 06 Jun 2009 14:50:36 -0700 Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:

> bool alloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node);
> bool alloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags);
> +bool zalloc_cpumask_var_node(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags, int node);
> +bool zalloc_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask, gfp_t flags);
> void alloc_bootmem_cpumask_var(cpumask_var_t *mask);

ick. cpumask_var_node_zalloc() would be better.

Yes, the other functions were incorrectly named, but that's no reason
to incorrectly name these also.