netdev - Re: [PATCH] NETLINK : kzalloc() conversion

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Date:	Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:46:54 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETLINK : kzalloc() conversion

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 a écrit :
> In article <475E22C2.9050700@...mosbay.com> (at Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:40:18 +0100), Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com> says:
> 
>> nl_pid_hash_alloc() is renamed to nl_pid_hash_zalloc().
>> It is now returning zeroed memory to its callers.
> 
> I do think you do not need (and you should not) rename it
> because XXX_zalloc() would imply we have raw XXX_alloc().
> 

Well, its a static function, so a single grep should satisfy
reader's concern :)


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