Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset

On 9/13/05, Jiri Slaby <[email protected]> wrote:
> >-      cls = kmalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL);
> >+      cls = kzalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL);
> >
> >
> maybe, the better way is to write `*cls' instead of `struct class',
> better for further changes

Please note that some maintainers don't like it. I at least could not
sneak in patches like these to drivers/usb/ because I had changed
sizeof.

                                 Pekka
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