Subject: Re: [PATCH] NETLINK : kzalloc() conversion

From: Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:46:54 +0100

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 a écrit :
> In article <[email-masked]> (at Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:40:18 +0100), Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]> says:
> 
>> nl_pid_hash_alloc() is renamed to nl_pid_hash_zalloc().
>> It is now returning zeroed memory to its callers.
> 
> I do think you do not need (and you should not) rename it
> because XXX_zalloc() would imply we have raw XXX_alloc().
> 

Well, its a static function, so a single grep should satisfy
reader's concern :)