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Date:	Sat, 19 Dec 2009 22:08:11 +0800
From:	"jack_wang" <jack_wang@...sh.com>
To:	"Julia Lawall" <julia@...u.dk>,
	"lindar_liu" <lindar_liu@...sh.com>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>,
	"linux-scsi" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"kernel-janitors" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] drivers/scsi/pm8001: Use kzalloc for allocating onlyone thing

RE:[PATCH 5/7] drivers/scsi/pm8001: Use kzalloc for allocating onlyone thing

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Use kzalloc rather than kcalloc(1,...)

The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
(http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@@
@@

- kcalloc(1,
+ kzalloc(
          ...)
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

---
 drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -u -p a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c
--- a/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c 2009-12-12 00:23:19.000000000 +0100
+++ b/drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_init.c 2009-12-19 07:52:44.000000000 +0100
@@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ static int __devinit pm8001_pci_probe(st
 	}
 	chip = &pm8001_chips[ent->driver_data];
 	SHOST_TO_SAS_HA(shost) =
-		kcalloc(1, sizeof(struct sas_ha_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
+		kzalloc(sizeof(struct sas_ha_struct), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!SHOST_TO_SAS_HA(shost)) {
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto err_out_free_host;


[Jack]Acked-by:Jack Wang <jack_wang@...sh.com>
Thanks, Julia

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