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FromDmitry Torokhov <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset
DateTue, 13 Sep 2005 00:33:10 -0500
On Monday 12 September 2005 23:43, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> 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.
> 

And given the fact that Greg maintains driver core it probably won't be
accepted here either :)

FWIW I also prefer spelling out the structure I am allocating.

-- 
Dmitry
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