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

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0612090913210.14456@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Sat, 9 Dec 2006 09:17:34 -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: 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:
> > 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.
>
> ...and what would that buy us? Nothing. It *really* wants to use
> kzalloc and the transformation is equivalent, so please make it one
> patch.

no.  those two submissions represent two logically different "fixes"
and i have no intention of combining them.

rday
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