netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/20] drivers/net: Use kzalloc

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Message-Id: <20100517.225526.216768521.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 17 May 2010 22:55:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	buytenh@...tstofly.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/20] drivers/net: Use kzalloc

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:00:22 +0200 (CEST)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> Use kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression x,size,flags;
> statement S;
> @@
> 
> -x = kmalloc(size,flags);
> +x = kzalloc(size,flags);
>  if (x == NULL) S
> -memset(x, 0, size);
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Applied.
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