Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759570AbaGXQud (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:50:33 -0400 Received: from mail-vc0-f175.google.com ([209.85.220.175]:54223 "EHLO mail-vc0-f175.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758885AbaGXQuc convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:50:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1406156581-6052-1-git-send-email-xerofoify@gmail.com> <20140724144725.GA32669@home.goodmis.org> <20140724105132.3cf221c2@gandalf.local.home> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:50:31 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: Change kzalloc to kcalloc From: Nick Krause To: =?UTF-8?B?TcOlbnMgUnVsbGfDpXJk?= Cc: Steven Rostedt , Greg KH , John Stultz , paul.gortmaker@windriver.com, gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com, yongjun_wei@trendmicro.com.cn, Dan Carpenter , tomas.winkler@intel.com, "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:47 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: > Nick Krause writes: > >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:34 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: >>> Nick Krause writes: >>> >>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Måns Rullgård wrote: >>>>> Steven Rostedt writes: >>>>> >>>>>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:47:25 -0400 >>>>>> Steven Rostedt wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> The three parameters are the number of elements, the size of each individual >>>>>>> element, and then finally the flags used on how to allocate that memory. >>>>>>> I have to say, you did get the flags part correct. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Now lets look at what you did. For the size you had: >>>>>> >>>>>> That should have read "For the count you had:" >>>>>> >>>>>> Oh well, you get my point anyway. >>>>> >>>>> I have some doubts about the last bit. >>>> >>>> I am have this discussion with other kernel developers and just >>>> because I send out one patch as a newbie like this doesn't mean I >>>> don't known C. >>> >>> Now I no longer have doubts; I know for certain that the point didn't >>> get across. >> >> I get your point try other things but I talked to other kernel >> developers and most of them seemed to get this feedback to when they >> started. > > Most kernel devs most certainly did NOT get started by spamming lkml > with unnecessary and incorrect patches despite being repeatedly told to > go away and stop wasting everybody's time. > > -- > Måns Rullgård > mans@mansr.com FIne , I give up. You want me to leave this then I wiil. Nick -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/