Re: [PATCH] drm: remove drm_calloc()

From: Dave Airlie
Date: Wed Jul 06 2005 - 10:47:11 EST


> > The DRM has wrappers for these function due to it being used on other
> > OS'es (BSD mainly)
>
> yes and? how about naming that wrapper "kcalloc()" instead.... which
> would make the linux "wrapper" empty and the bsd wrapper just trivial
> las well ?

drm_calloc doesn't have the same interface as kcalloc... it gets
passed an area parameter and we use it on other OSes.. I'm not going
to split Linux and BSD drivers just for a trivial little thing like
this.. I'll fix the wrapper like I said..

Dave.
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