From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sivakumar Subramani" Subject: RE: drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:43:11 -0400 Message-ID: <78C9135A3D2ECE4B8162EBDCE82CAD77020EEEC6@nekter> References: <1187000010.29518.27.camel@bluegenie> <46C14297.1050800@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Cc: , , , "Linux Kernel" , "kernel-janitors" To: "Jeff Garzik" , Return-path: Received: from mx.neterion.com ([72.1.205.142]:15542 "EHLO owa.neterion.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751139AbXHPGmX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Aug 2007 02:42:23 -0400 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message In-Reply-To: <46C14297.1050800@garzik.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org What exactly the difference between kzalloc and kcalloc? From the definition, I could see that kcalloc should be used for array allocation. But I could see kzalloc is used for allocation arrays as in the below patch. Any coding standard (or) developers can use kzalloc and kcalloc as per their coding practice?? Thanks, ~Siva -----Original Message----- From: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jeff Garzik Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 11:20 AM To: surya.prabhakar@wipro.com Cc: mikep@linuxtr.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-tr@linuxtr.net; Linux Kernel; kernel-janitors Subject: Re: drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c Surya Prabhakar N wrote: > Hi, > Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in > drivers/net/tokenring/3c359.c > > > Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar applied - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html