[PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset tok(z|c)alloc.

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Fri Jul 21 17:17:30 EDT 2006


Pekka J Enberg wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Panagiotis Issaris wrote:
>> Ah okay. Up until now, I thought it would be okay to change the style of
>> the code if it was listed in the CodingStyle document and in any other
>> cause should be left untouched as it would be left to the maintainers
>> personal preference. That's why I explicitly asked about the "if ((buf =
>> kmalloc(...)==NULL) -> buf = kmalloc(...); if (!buf)" type of changes.
>>
>> Ofcourse, I should have put cosmetic changes in a separate patch anyway.
> 
> At least Andrew seems to prefer cleaning up in the same patch. Anyway, I 
> don't think Jeff meant that you shouldn't do any cleanups, but that you 
> should try to respect the existing style as much possible.

Correct.

	Jeff






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