Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> writes: > * Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au> wrote: >> I don't think there are great answers here. But adding more subtle zeroing >> semantics feels wrong, even if it will mostly Just Work. > > It's not subtle if the naming clearly reflects it (hence my suggestion to > rename > the API) - and the status quo for on-stack allocations is zeroing anyway, so > it's > not a big jump...
True, but we already have zalloc_cpumask_var() though if we want that? It probably makes sense to just switch everyone to that and get rid of the non-z one? Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
