Re: [PATCH] ALSA: Remove subsystem-specific malloc (1/8)

[Chris Wright]

* Pekka J Enberg (penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
>  /**
> + * kcalloc - allocate memory. The memory is set to zero.
> + * @size: how many bytes of memory are required.
> + * @flags: the type of memory to allocate.
> + */
> +void *kcalloc(size_t size, int flags)
> +{
> +	void *ret = kmalloc(size, flags);
> +	if (ret)
> +		memset(ret, 0, size);
> +	return ret;
> +}

This looks more like the kzalloc() that pops up every now and then.
Wouldn't it make more sense to give kcalloc() a true calloc() style
interface?

thanks,
-chris
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