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

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote:
>
> On Monday 12 September 2005 23:43, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On 9/13/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >-      cls = kmalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > >+      cls = kzalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL);
> > > >
> > > >
> > > maybe, the better way is to write `*cls' instead of `struct class',
> > > better for further changes
> > 
> > Please note that some maintainers don't like it. I at least could not
> > sneak in patches like these to drivers/usb/ because I had changed
> > sizeof.
> > 
> 
> And given the fact that Greg maintains driver core it probably won't be
> accepted here either :)
> 
> FWIW I also prefer spelling out the structure I am allocating.
> 

It hurts readability.  Quick question: is this code correct?

	dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL);

you don't know.  You have to go hunting down the declaration of `dev' to
find out.