Re: RFC: turn kmalloc+memset(,0,) into kcalloc

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On Tuesday 05 April 2005 21:00, Jörn Engel wrote:
> On Tue, 5 April 2005 17:26:31 +0100, Paulo Marques wrote:
> > 
> > Would this be a good thing to clean up, or isn't it worth the effort at all?
> 
> I would welcome such a stream of patches.  But in spite of the calloc
> interface being rather stupid, I'd prefer to see patches with kcalloc
> instead of kmalloc_zero.

kcalloc call will have three params pushed on stack. in 99% of cases
it could be done with two. If anyone's going to do it, please create
and use

void *kzalloc(size, gfp_mask)

or zalloc, kmalloc_zero... whatever.
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vda

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