linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kcalloc: Re-order the first two out-of-order args to kcalloc().

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612090855590.14206@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:00:33 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
cc:	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kcalloc: Re-order the first two out-of-order args to
 kcalloc().

On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:
> > @@ -705,7 +705,7 @@ static int uss720_probe(struct usb_inter
> >         /*
> >          * Allocate parport interface
> >          */
> > -       if (!(priv = kcalloc(sizeof(struct parport_uss720_private), 1,
> > GFP_KERNEL))) {
> > +       if (!(priv = kcalloc(1, sizeof(struct parport_uss720_private),
> > GFP_KERNEL))) {
>
> This one should be kzalloc
>
> You really ought to send these cleanups to akpm@...l.org with LKML
> cc'd to get them merged.

good point, and argh.  good point in that any further patches that are
primarily stylistic and/or aesthetic like the above will be sent to
akpm, and CC'ed to list.

argh, in that i've already mentioned that, following the guidelines in
"SubmittingPatches", i prefer that each of my patches have one logical
purpose.  once the order of the kcalloc() args is corrected, that
would be followed by a single subsequent patch that did the
kcalloc->kzalloc transformation all at once.

if that's *not* the way folks on this list wish to see patches, then
that advice should be removed from "SubmittingPatches."

as captain hollister once said to dave lister, "choose."

rday
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