Re: [PATCH 3/5] drivers/scsi : Correct the size argument to kmalloc

[Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-12-29 at 21:04 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > > Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> > > > In each case, the destination of the allocation has type struct **, so the
> > > > elements of the array should have pointer type, not structure type.
> > > Maybe they should even by kcalloc'ed?
> > I thought about that, but in response to another patch someone seemed to 
> > think kcalloc was not very useful.  But I can certainly change it in this 
> > case.
> 
> I think kcalloc is useful and should be used when the
> allocated array of elements needs to be zeroed.
> 
> It appears the uses in 1/5 and 3/5 don't need it but
> maybe patch 2/5 and 4/5 should use kcalloc.

I will look into changing them too.

julia