On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:37 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> 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?
Arjan van de Ven writes:
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.
Indeed, kcalloc should not be deprecated as it is meant for array
allocation. I can send patches that replace kcalloc(1,...) with kzalloc if
there are no other janitors interested...
Pekka
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