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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612071902010.22886@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 7 Dec 2006 19:02:34 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
cc:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sound : Replace kmalloc()+memset(0) with kzalloc().

On Fri, 8 Dec 2006, Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> >   Replace all appropriate kmalloc() + memset() combinations with
> > kzalloc() throughout the sound/ directory.
>
> [... cut ...]
>
> > diff --git a/sound/oss/i810_audio.c b/sound/oss/i810_audio.c
> > index c3c8a72..f5e31f1 100644
> > --- a/sound/oss/i810_audio.c
> > +++ b/sound/oss/i810_audio.c
> > @@ -2580,10 +2580,9 @@ static int i810_open(struct inode *inode
> >  		for (i = 0; i < NR_HW_CH && card && !card->initializing; i++) {
> >  			if (card->states[i] == NULL) {
> >  				state = card->states[i] = (struct i810_state *)
> > -					kmalloc(sizeof(struct i810_state), GFP_KERNEL);
> > +					kzalloc(sizeof(struct i810_state), GFP_KERNEL);
>
> You can remove those casts while you're at it.

i actually thought about that, but decided to restrict that submission
to just the kmalloc/memset replacement.  a subsequent patch could do a
global change of all k*alloc calls to get rid of superfluous casts.

rday
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