From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752924Ab1CUN3V (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:29:21 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.123]:39874 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751553Ab1CUN3S (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:29:18 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.1 cv=aqMe+0lCtaYvy4h0jyaoPGyq+DPF+P6rPG2xbekoY9Q= c=1 sm=0 a=d6KjmF4z1lEA:10 a=Q9fys5e9bTEA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:17 a=3lZFYKBB-HEbCBkL8dsA:9 a=ZhRhQ7CGc7iq3MyYNOa9soYiltkA:4 a=PUjeQqilurYA:10 a=OPBmh+XkhLl+Enan7BmTLg==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Originating-IP: 67.242.120.143 Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Test for kmalloc/memset(0) pairs From: Steven Rostedt To: Dave Jones Cc: Jonathan Corbet , LKML , Andy Whitcroft , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <1300713980.16880.5813.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> References: <1300416744.16880.904.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20110317211548.646b04d2@tpl.lwn.net> <20110319193954.GA2032@redhat.com> <1300713980.16880.5813.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:29:17 -0400 Message-ID: <1300714157.16880.5819.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Also, there seems to be one important thing missing from this thread. Can we please apply my patch? It may be months or years before we decide how to handle this checkpatch vs Coccinelle and I think it is important that we flag this as a warning/error. -- Steve