Re: make checkpatch warn about memset with swapped arguments.

[Steven Rostedt]

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 16:37:04 -0400

> 
> Dave's patch is tested (I assume), so it wins ;)

I did test mine :) Checked it out before posting. Although I didn't make
a patch out of it.

> 
> Maybe it's just me, but I think it would be better to use bzero() for
> this operation - it's more readable and it can't be screwed up.  Then
> checkpatch checks for memset(xxx, 0, xxx) and for memset(xxx, xxx, 0)
> and says "hey, use bzero".  

Honestly, I've never had the issues with memset. Maybe back in college.
But heh, whatever.

-- Steve


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