Re: [PATCH] rtc: pl030: Use devm_kzalloc() instead of kmalloc()

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2013-10-10 at 19:18 -0400, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Do we have an
> actual cases where this makes meaningful differences?

There are already a few array allocations
where the array is completely reinitialized.

Does it matter?  Shrug.

It's more API compatible and more symmetric.

Direct conversions of kmalloc blocks don't
involve kmalloc->kzalloc translations, so
it'll be bug-for-bug compatible.

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