Re: [PATCH] use kzalloc instead of malloc+memset

[Pekka Enberg]

Pekka J Enberg writes:
>  > +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators:
>  > +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc().  Please refer to the API
>  > +documentation for further information about them.
>  > +
>  > +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
>  > +
>  > +	p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 11:42 +0400, Nikita Danilov wrote:
> Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See

Sure but is it the preferred form for the kernel?

			Pekka

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