On Tue, 5 Apr 2005, Paulo Marques wrote:

> Hi,
> I noticed there are a number of places in the kernel that do:
>       ptr = kmalloc(n * size, ...)
>       if (!ptr)
>               goto out;
>       memset(ptr, 0, n * size);
> It seems that these could be replaced by:
>       ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...)
>       if (!ptr)
>               goto out;
or simply
        if (!(ptr = kcalloc(n, size, ...)))
                goto out;
and save an additional line of screen realestate while you are at it...


-- 
Jesper Juhl


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