Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 22:43:35 -0700
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Sangjung Woo <sangjung.woo@samsung.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] device: Add kernel standard devm_k.alloc functions
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On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> Currently, devm_ managed memory only supports kzalloc.
> 
> Convert the devm_kzalloc implementation to devm_kmalloc
> and remove the complete memset to 0 but still set the
> initial struct devres header and whatever padding before
> data to 0.
> 
> Add the other normal alloc variants as static inlines with
> __GFP_ZERO added to the gfp flag where appropriate:
> 
> 	devm_kzalloc
> 	devm_kcalloc
> 	devm_kmalloc_array
> 
> Add gfp.h to device.h for the newly added static inlines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> ---
>  drivers/base/devres.c  | 27 ++++++++++++++++-----------
>  include/linux/device.h | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
>  2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

Makes sense to me, does this let other drivers start to use this where
they were not able to in the past?

thanks,

greg k-h
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