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

Jeff Garzik jgarzik at pobox.com
Fri Jul 21 03:05:22 EDT 2006


Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On 7/21/06, Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel at sf-tec.de> wrote:
>> > -     if (!(handle = kmalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL)))
>> > +     handle = kzalloc(sizeof(struct input_handle), GFP_KERNEL);
>> > +     if (!handle)
>> >               return NULL;
>>
>> sizeof(*handle)?
> 
> In general, yes. However, some maintainers don't like that, so I would
> recommend to keep them as-is unless you get a clear ack from the
> maintainer to change it.

Strongly agreed.  Follow the style of the existing code as closely as 
possible, and resist the temptation of making little "improvements" 
while you are doing a task...

	Jeff






More information about the linux-pcmcia mailing list