Re: [PATCH v5 09/10] gpio: Add a driver for Cadence I3C GPIO expander

[Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2018-06-27 at 21:36 +0200, Boris Brezillon wrote:
> I mean, kzalloc() is not deprecated AFAIK and I don't really see the
> benefit of using kmalloc_array(), but if that makes you happy, let's go
> for kmalloc_array().

kcalloc

> I do run checkpatch --strict and fix most of the thing reported except
> those hurting readability. I don't remember seeing checkpatch complain
> about kzalloc() usage, and I guess it's not smart enough to detect that
> for_each_bit_set() can be used to replace the "for() if (BIT(x) & val)"
> pattern.

That would not an appropriate conversion suggestion in any case.
coccinelle could at least look at whether or not x is allocated
as a bitmap via DECLARE_BITMAP or bitmap_alloc


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