Hi, On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Metin KAYA <kayameti@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Jonathan, it's kmalloc(), not kcalloc(). The kernel's kmalloc doesn't initialize the memory. There is a function called kzalloc which will allocate and zero the memory, which is sort of similar to the user-space calloc function, although calloc takes num-of-items and size-of-one-item, whereas kzalloc takes "size-of-allocation". -- Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.davehylands.com _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies