Andy Fleming wrote:
> Why? Doesn't this just obfuscate things a little, while providing no
> immediate benefit?
I see code like this frequently:
bus = mdiobus_alloc();
if (bus == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
priv = kzalloc(sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
if (priv == NULL) {
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_free;
}
bus->priv = priv;
This can be replaced with:
bus = mdiobus_alloc(sizeof(*priv));
if (bus == NULL)
return -ENOMEM;
So the benefit is in simplifying memory management. Now you have only one
allocation to manage, instead of two.
fbdev does the same thing, which is where I got the idea from. See
framebuffer_alloc().
--
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale
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