Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

From: Alan
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 05:41:06 EST


> represents a kmalloc->kzalloc cleanup (there's lots of those), and
> also see if you can replace one of these:
>
> sizeof(struct blah)
>
> with one of these:
>
> sizeof(*blahptr)

Patches that do this will get rejected by the tty maintainer in favour of
the clarity of the sizeof(struct xyz) format 8)

Ahmed - if you can send me a patch for the tty_io/tty_ioctl code which
switches to kzalloc where it makes sense and removes un-needed casts I'll
review it and push the bits that look sane upstream.

Alan
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