linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: Change kzalloc to kcalloc

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:30:51 -0700
From:	Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@...il.com>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com>,
	Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	paul.gortmaker@...driver.com, gang.chen.5i5j@...il.com,
	yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	tomas.winkler@...el.com,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Change kzalloc to kcalloc

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:50:31 -0400
> Nick Krause <xerofoify@...il.com> wrote:

>
>> I am have this discussion with other kernel developers and just
>> because I send out one patch as a newbie like this doesn't mean I
>> don't known C.
>
> It's not just one patch, and I didn't say you don't know C. I said you
> don't understand C enough for kernel development.

And more importantly, stop guessing things are OK and selfishly asking
others to check
your work for you.

If you have not at least _built_ the kernel with your change, and not
_run_ it, and not made
sure that the changed code is being _run_...you are wasting other people's time.

Harvey
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