Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933948AbbLPCZ0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:25:26 -0500 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:37019 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932607AbbLPCZZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Dec 2015 21:25:25 -0500 From: Rusty Russell To: Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner , SergeySenozhatsky , Andrew Morton , Xunlei Pang , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rik van Riel , Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] cpumask: Migrate 'alloc_cpumask_var()' users to 'zalloc_cpumask_var()' In-Reply-To: References: <1449478184-27168-1-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> <1449478184-27168-2-git-send-email-mingo@kernel.org> <20151208040903.GA31689@gmail.com> <20151208041335.GA13474@gmail.com> User-Agent: Notmuch/0.20.2 (http://notmuchmail.org) Emacs/24.5.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 10:56:11 +1030 Message-ID: <877fkfxmqk.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 884 Lines: 23 Linus Torvalds writes: > On Dec 7, 2015 8:13 PM, "Ingo Molnar" 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 Thanks, Rusty. -- 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/