[patch-2.3.40-pre6] kzalloc() (ala kmem_zalloc() of SVR4)

[Jes Sorensen]

>>>>> "Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian <tigran en sco.COM> writes:

Tigran> Hi Linus, a common code sequence of calling kmalloc() and then
Tigran> memset(p,0,size) can be optimized into a single exported
Tigran> interface called kzalloc() like it is done on other systems
Tigran> (kmem_zalloc()). This is a simple and harmless optimization -
Tigran> please consider it:

Why?

The only thing it does is to introduce a new non standard name which
makes current code less readable.

Jes

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