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Message-ID: <1377654240.2005.32.camel@jtkirshe-mobl>
Date:	Tue, 27 Aug 2013 18:44:00 -0700
From:	Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	users@...x00.serialmonkey.com, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, b43-dev@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [E1000-devel] [PATCH net-next] drivers:net: Convert
 dma_alloc_coherent(...__GFP_ZERO) to dma_zalloc_coherent

On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 22:45 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> __GFP_ZERO is an uncommon flag and perhaps is better
> not used.  static inline dma_zalloc_coherent exists
> so convert the uses of dma_alloc_coherent with __GFP_ZERO
> to the more common kernel style with zalloc.
> 
> Remove memset from the static inline dma_zalloc_coherent
> and add just one use of __GFP_ZERO instead.
> 
> Trivially reduces the size of the existing uses of
> dma_zalloc_coherent.
> 
> Realign arguments as appropriate.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

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