Re: kernel: use kcalloc instead kmalloc/memset

[Pekka J Enberg]

On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 11:37 +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > BTW we already have 420 "kcalloc(1, ...)" user and 41 without the 1 
> > argument, most of them are in sound, which introduced it in first place.
> > Can we please deprecate that function before it spreads any further?

Arjan van de Ven writes:
> kcalloc does have value, in that it's a nice api to avoid multiplication
> overflows. Just for "1" it's indeed not the most useful API. 

Indeed, kcalloc should not be deprecated as it is meant for array 
allocation. I can send patches that replace kcalloc(1,...) with kzalloc if 
there are no other janitors interested... 

                Pekka 

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