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

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Date:	Sat, 09 Dec 2006 22:57:47 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
CC:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kcalloc: Re-order the first two out-of-order args to
 kcalloc().

Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> On Sat, 9 Dec 2006, Pekka Enberg wrote:
>> On 12/9/06, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:
>>> 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.

They are both *alloc() related cleanups without change in functionality.
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Stefan Richter
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