Re: [PATCH 1/4] cpumask: Migrate 'alloc_cpumask_var()' users to 'zalloc_cpumask_var()'

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Tue Dec 15 2015 - 21:25:42 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Dec 7, 2015 8:13 PM, "Ingo Molnar" <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> One question: I'll remove all the non-zeroing variants, but would you be
> fine with
>> keeping the 'zalloc' naming? That's consistent with other allocation API
> patterns
>> across the kernel. There won't be any unsafe API left.
>
> Sure, I guess that won't hurt, and we could quietly start deprecating the
> zalloc pattern just to avoid the redundancy in the long run..

I like the zalloc naming, it's clear. But the series looks fine:

Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,
Rusty.
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