From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:33:10 +0000 Subject: Re: [KJ] memory zeroing macros Message-Id: <20070211213310.GA16343@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 03:34:34PM -0500, burns.ethan@gmail.com wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 04:32:11AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > or maybe this really is just not worth the effort. who knows? > > I don't think its worth the effort. Changing the name on this wouldn't add > any readability. memset(dest, 0, len) is very clear, in my opinion. Also, > there's nothing really error prone about it... I see no advantage. Not true at all, 0 and len get switched a lot accidentally. See the archives for times people have swept the kernel tree to fix this issue up. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernel-janitors mailing list Kernel-janitors@lists.osdl.org https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel-janitors