Re: [PATCH 46/49] net/netfilter: Use vzalloc

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 07:30 +0100, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I had _one_ patch, waiting that David actually had vzalloc() in its tree
> before sending it.

Fine by me, use yours.

> Given Jesper Juhl was doing this work, could you please take another
> one, please ?
> For example, explaining him how to use other tools than "bash+egrep
> +manual inspection" as he mentioned in a previous mail.

Jesper Juhl was both pointed at the cocci docs and
given a cocci script.  He said he'd investigate it
when he could.  I trust he will get to it.

I think that for this sort of patchset, grep and
manual inspection works just as well as spatch
and likely better because a simple cocci script
doesn't transform code like:

	if (size > PAGE_SIZE)
		ptr = vmalloc(size);
	else
		ptr = kmalloc(size, GFP);
	if (ptr)
		memset(ptr, 0, size);

I did say in the 00 cover that this was broken up
just to cc the maintainers of each block.

I also think a single rolled-up single patch is good.

I believe Jiri Kosina can easily apply all these
individual patches as a single patch if he chooses.