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Merge series from Ethan Carter Edwards <ethan@ethancedwards.com>: Open coded arithmetic in allocator arguments is discouraged. Helper functions like kcalloc or, in this case, devm_kcalloc are preferred. Not only for readability purposes but safety purposes. The changes move `devm_kzalloc(dev, sizeof(var) * n, GFP_KERNEL)` to the helper function `devm_kcalloc(dev, n, sizeof(var), GFP_KERNEL)`. Here is a series of four patches within the Intel/avs drivers that make these changes. They are all compile tested only but should have no effect on runtime behaviour. Link: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/deprecated.html#open-coded-arithmetic-in-allocator-arguments Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/162
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.