linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.

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Date:	Sat, 22 Jul 2006 20:35:11 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Tomasz Kłoczko <kloczek@...y.mif.pg.gda.pl>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
cc:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...Helsinki.FI>,
	Panagiotis Issaris <takis@....org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: Conversions from kmalloc+memset to k(z|c)alloc.

On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, Stefan Richter wrote:
[..]
> Style issues like "sizeof(struct foo)" versus "sizeof(*bar)" in memory 
> allocation are beyond what indent can and should do.
>
>> Coding style seems is Linux case kind of never ending story.
>
> It's not a big deal in my limited experience, as far as there is a documented 
> consensus.
>
>> Keep one/common coding style in this case is someting not for small tool 
>> but more for .. Superman/Hecules (?)
> [...]
>
> Yes. Or subsystem maintainers who didn't already could adopt the documented 
> style. Or correct the document where it doesn't reflect consensus.

Moment .. are you want to say something like "keep commont coding style 
can't be maintained by tool" ?
Even if indent watches on to small coding style emenets still I don't see 
why using this tool isn't one of the current ement of release procedure 
(?).

kloczek
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