[PATCH] staging: Change kzalloc to kcalloc

Nick Krause xerofoify at gmail.com
Thu Jul 24 18:41:53 UTC 2014


On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:30:51 -0700
> Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 24 Jul 2014 12:50:31 -0400
>> > Nick Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >> I am have this discussion with other kernel developers and just
>> >> because I send out one patch as a newbie like this doesn't mean I
>> >> don't known C.
>> >
>> > It's not just one patch, and I didn't say you don't know C. I said you
>> > don't understand C enough for kernel development.
>>
>> And more importantly, stop guessing things are OK and selfishly asking
>> others to check
>> your work for you.
>>
>> If you have not at least _built_ the kernel with your change, and not
>> _run_ it, and not made
>> sure that the changed code is being _run_...you are wasting other people's time.
>>
>
> Nick,
>
> Just to bring Harvey's email here in perspective. I mentioned in my
> previous email that most of us are overworked. We don't have time to
> teach you if your patches are correct or not. By saying, "I'll just
> write the code and you tell me if it's correct, and test it for me" is
> like telling someone "Here's a lawn mower, now go mow my lawn".
>
> We like it if people put effort into their work and are confident
> themselves that they have the right code or not. There's enough
> reviewing of patches to do from people that put that effort in, that
> there's no time to review patches from people that don't know if their
> work or not.
>
> Cheers,
>
> -- Steve

Steve,
I have programming a lot in other areas just not the kernel.
You are right through I need to test my code better through.
Cheers Nick


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