Re: [patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4)

From: Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2000 - 05:27:01 EST


>>>>> "Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> writes:

Tigran> On 21 Jan 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote:
>> The only thing it does is to introduce a new non standard name
>> which makes current code less readable.

Tigran> Incorrect, it makes code smaller and more readable at the cost
Tigran> of extra function call and an if.

Wrong again, it makes the code less readable because kzalloc() is a
non standard function name. This looks more to me like a patch just
for the sake of the patch.

Jes

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