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Re: [PATCH] wireless: used kzalloc instead of kmalloc & memset

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On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 22:06, Shan Wei <shanwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Use kcalloc or kzalloc rather than the combination of kmalloc and memset.

[snip]

> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c |    6 ++----
>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
> index df5959f..43776e6 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/mwl8k.c
> @@ -1056,13 +1056,12 @@ static int mwl8k_rxq_init(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, int index)
>        }
>        memset(rxq->rxd, 0, size);
>
> -       rxq->buf = kmalloc(MWL8K_RX_DESCS * sizeof(*rxq->buf), GFP_KERNEL);
> +       rxq->buf = kzalloc(MWL8K_RX_DESCS * sizeof(*rxq->buf), GFP_KERNEL);

Random nit, you're changing this from kmalloc to kzalloc when it would
be trivial to change it to kcalloc instead if you don't restrict the T
variable in your semantic patch to a type.

Thanks,

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