linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] cpumask: Migrate 'alloc_cpumask_var()' users to 'zalloc_cpumask

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Message-ID: <877fkfxmqk.fsf@rustcorp.com.au>
Date:	Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:56:11 +1030
From:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	SergeySenozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...hat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] cpumask: Migrate 'alloc_cpumask_var()' users to 'zalloc_cpumask_var()'

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:
> On Dec 7, 2015 8:13 PM, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>>
>> One question: I'll remove all the non-zeroing variants, but would you be
> fine with
>> keeping the 'zalloc' naming? That's consistent with other allocation API
> patterns
>> across the kernel. There won't be any unsafe API left.
>
> Sure, I guess that won't hurt, and we could quietly start deprecating the
> zalloc pattern just to avoid the redundancy in the long run..

I like the zalloc naming, it's clear.  But the series looks fine:

        Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>

Thanks,
Rusty.
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