Re: [PATCH 00/23] drm: introduce drm_zalloc

[Dave Airlie]

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 10:57:50PM +0200, m.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > 	As there are many places in drm code where drm_alloc + memset is used
> > this patch series introduces drm_zalloc and also makes use of drm_calloc where
> > needed. Most of these patches save some bytes so the benefit is a few kB saved
> > (gcc 4.1.2) with patch applied. Also some small (style, etc.) things are fixed.
> > This patch series does the conversion drm tree-wide. All patches were compile
> > tested.
>
> Please just convert it to plain kzalloc/kcalloc and kill these utterly useless
> wrappers instead.

The wrappers aren't useless the drm alloc/free passes in a memory space 
for debugging purposes so we can track memory abuse when developing,

but drm_zalloc shouldjust alias to drm_calloc really..

Dave.
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