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

[Ahmed S. Darwish]

On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 11:26:07AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:

> One big patch for the whole kernel will not work anyway. You have to split it 
> up to allow subsystems to integrate them in their own trees. With one big 
> patch you would get collisions all over the tree causing the complete patch 
> to get dropped. Also CC subsystem maintainers on their parts. And please send 
> the patches as replies to the first one as it cleans up readability of lkml a 
> lot :)

Oops, Just read this warning after sending the (big) patch. Sorry It's my first
patch :). I'll split it and do as written. Thanks alot :).

> > I think this will be better done in another patch to let every patch do one
> > single thing. right ?
> 
> Yes. But I would suggest starting with the kmalloc()->kzalloc() things. When 
> you do this conversions just remove the casts of the lines you're touching. 
> This will reduce the size of the complete thing avoiding two rather trivial 
> patches touching the same line twice.
> 
> Eike

OK. In progress

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Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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