On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 07:04:51PM +0200, Sebastian Ott wrote: > What was wrong with the old behavior (let the caller decide - the same > as with memory allocations)?
The old behavior on most (all?) mainstream architectures is that we always zero the return value. On x86/i386 this goes back to at least Linux 2.4. So common drivers simply expect this to happen.
