linux-kernel - Re: [PATH] Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc 1/17

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Message-Id: <20061112102554.c9d422b7.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Date:	Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:25:54 -0800
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Burman Yan <yan_952@...mail.com>, trivial@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATH] Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc 1/17

On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:31:03 +0000 Russell King wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 07:20:53PM +0200, Burman Yan wrote:
> > This is the first part of the patches I made that do trivial change of 
> > replacing
> > kmalloc and memset with kzalloc
> 
> Please follow the guidelines in SubmittingPatches in the kernel source
> when sending patches out.  You must not expect everyone here to read
> each of the attachments in your messages in detail to work out whether
> they need to do something with it or not.

You should also use a different subject for each one,
something that is related to the subsystem being patched,
e.g., [PATCH] scsi: use kzalloc

Besides Documentation/SubmittingPatches, please also read
http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
and http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt

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~Randy
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