linux-kernel - Re: [media] RedRat3: Use kcalloc() in two functions?

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Date:   Fri, 14 Oct 2016 07:45:17 +0200
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@...all.nl>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Sean Young <sean@...s.org>,
        Wolfram Sang <wsa-dev@...g-engineering.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: Re: [media] RedRat3: Use kcalloc() in two functions?

> Markus, please stop being _so_ mechanical and use your
> brain a little too.  By definition, sizeof(char) == 1.
> 
> This _really_ should be kzalloc(RR3_FW_VERSION_LEN + 1,...)

Do you expect that function call examples like the following will be equivalent?

	zbuffer = kzalloc(123, …);
	cbuffer = kcalloc(123, 1, …);

Regards,
Markus