On Mon, 2020-04-06 at 09:41 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 9:12 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > While I agree with Linus about the __ prefix, > > the z is pretty common and symmetric to all > > the <foo>zalloc uses. > > Yes, we have a pattern of 'z' for zero. > > But the _operation_ isn't symmetric. > > "kzalloc()" has absolutely _nothing_ to do with "kzfree()". They are > not some kind of "opposite symmetric operation". They are totally > different. They have absolutely nothing in common. Dubious assertion. Both end up with zeroed memory.
