This save us about 20k of text size, and should have no impact on
performance as hot paths do not use much I/O.
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
108512 1784 168 110464 1af80 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl3945.ko
165730 2164 156 168050 29072 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl4965.ko
91942 328 48 92318 1689e drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwlegacy.ko
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
95556 1784 168 97508 17ce4 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl3945.ko
154853 2164 156 157173 265f5 drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwl4965.ko
91634 328 48 92010 1676a drivers/net/wireless/iwlegacy/iwlegacy.ko
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
The advantage of kcalloc is, that will prevent integer overflows which could
result from the multiplication of number of elements and size and it is also
a bit nicer to read.
The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/25/107
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Stanislaw Gruszka