Re: [PATCH 4/4] atm/ambassador: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

[Joonwoo Park]

2007/11/26, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> i'm not sure the above is a safe thing to do, as you're zeroing that
> area, then making a function call and assuming, upon entry to the
> function call, that the caller has done the right thing.  i don't see
> how you can count on that, depending on who else might want to call
> that routine and whether they get sloppy about it.  unless you're
> prepared to guarantee that there will never be another call to
> setup_dev() from elsewhere.
>

Thanks for your response.
But setup_dev is static function and only amb_init calls it.
IMO it's safe.

Thanks.
Joonwoo
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