Re: CVS commit: src/sys/arch/x86/x86

["Arnaud Lacombe" <lacombar%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Christoph Egger <cegger%netbsd.org@localhost> 
wrote:
>
> Module Name:    src
> Committed By:   cegger
> Date:           Tue Dec 23 15:31:20 UTC 2008
>
> Modified Files:
>        src/sys/arch/x86/x86: mpacpi.c mpbios.c
>
> Log Message:
> move from malloc to kmem
>
as asked in private, why changing the code behaviour by calling
kmem_zalloc(9) where the original malloc(9) did *not* specify M_ZERO ?

 - Arnaud

ps: "because it is more safe to call memset()" is not a valid answer