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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc
Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:20:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <521x9pc9o6.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0504052052230.2444@dragon.hyggekrogen.localhost> (Jesper Juhl's message of "Tue, 5 Apr 2005 20:54:07 +0200 (CEST)")

    > or simply
    > 	if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...)))
    > 		goto out;
    > and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it...

No, please don't do that.  The general kernel style is to avoid
assignments within conditionals.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2005-04-05 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-05 16:26 RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc Paulo Marques
2005-04-05 18:00 ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-06 12:09   ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-04-05 18:54 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-04-05 19:20   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2005-04-05 20:01     ` Jesper Juhl
2005-04-06 11:28       ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-06 12:15         ` Paulo Marques
2005-04-06 13:10           ` Pekka Enberg
2005-04-06 15:50             ` Paulo Marques
2005-04-07 23:54               ` Kyle Moffett
2005-04-09  2:11         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-04-07 21:47 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-08 12:38   ` Paulo Marques
2005-04-08 13:00     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-08 13:20       ` Jörn Engel
2005-04-08 13:29         ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-08 16:24       ` Paulo Marques
2005-04-08 19:43         ` Adrian Bunk
2005-04-08 19:49           ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-04-08 13:00     ` stack checking (was: Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc) Jörn Engel
2005-04-09 14:19     ` RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc Paul Jackson

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