On 6/16/20 2:09 PM, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:43:11 -0400 Waiman Long wrote:
As said by Linus:
A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
Otherwise it's actively misleading.
In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what
On Tue, 16 Jun 2020 11:43:11 -0400 Waiman Long wrote:
> As said by Linus:
>
> A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
> Otherwise it's actively misleading.
>
> In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
> caller wants.
>
> In "kz
As said by Linus:
A symmetric naming is only helpful if it implies symmetries in use.
Otherwise it's actively misleading.
In "kzalloc()", the z is meaningful and an important part of what the
caller wants.
In "kzfree()", the z is actively detrimental, because maybe in the
future we r
