linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/1] infiniband/hw/nes/: avoid unnecessary memset

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2008 16:46:47 -0500
From:	"Faisal Latif" <flatif@...Effect.com>
To:	"Christophe Jaillet" <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>,
	"linux" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Nishi Gupta" <ngupta@...Effect.com>,
	"Glenn Streiff" <gstreiff@...Effect.com>,
	<general@...ts.openfabrics.org>
Cc:	"Roland Dreier" <rdreier@...co.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] infiniband/hw/nes/: avoid unnecessary memset

Acked-by Faisal Latif<faisal@...effect.com>

Thanks
Faisal


> 
> From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> Hi, here is a patch against linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c
> which :
> 
> 1) Remove an explicit memset(.., 0, ...) to a variable allocated with
> kzalloc (i.e. 'listener').
> 
> 
> Note: this patch is based on 'linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2'
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@...adoo.fr>
> 
> ---
> 
> --- linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c	2008-04-17
> 04:49:44.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c.cj	2008-05-12
> 23:31:24.000000000 +0200
> @@ -1587,7 +1587,6 @@ static struct nes_cm_listener *mini_cm_l
>  			return NULL;
>  		}
> 
> -		memset(listener, 0, sizeof(struct nes_cm_listener));
>  		listener->loc_addr = htonl(cm_info->loc_addr);
>  		listener->loc_port = htons(cm_info->loc_port);
>  		listener->reused_node = 0;
> 

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