On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:37 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > > +static inline void *kzalloc(size_t size, unsigned int __nocast flags)
> > > +{
> > > + return kcalloc(1, size, flags);
> > > +}
> > > +
> >
> > That'll generate just as much code as simply using kcalloc(1, ...). This
> > function should be out-of-line and EXPORT_SYMBOL()ed. And kcalloc() can
> > call it too..
>
> BTW we already have 420 "kcalloc(1, ...)" user and 41 without the 1
> argument, most of them are in sound, which introduced it in first place.
> Can we please deprecate that function before it spreads any further?
kcalloc does have value, in that it's a nice api to avoid multiplication
overflows. Just for "1" it's indeed not the most useful API.
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