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Date:	Wed, 10 Aug 2011 08:44:28 +0100
From:	Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...com>
To:	Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@...n.ch>
CC:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...e.de, cota@...ap.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] staging: vme_user: change kmalloc+memset to kzalloc

On 01/08/11 11:52, Martyn Welch wrote:
> On 01/08/11 11:20, Manohar Vanga wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@...n.ch>
> 
> Acked-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@...com>
> 

Greg, please can you apply this patch.

As it's the first in the series, deals with a separate issue from the rest of
the patch series it would mean one less patch for Manohar to resend.

Martyn

>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c |    4 +---
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
>> index 91d2cc7..3cbeb2a 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c
>> @@ -651,7 +651,7 @@ static int __init vme_user_init(void)
>>  
>>  
>>  	/* Dynamically create the bind table based on module parameters */
>> -	ids = kmalloc(sizeof(struct vme_device_id) * (bus_num + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	ids = kzalloc(sizeof(struct vme_device_id) * (bus_num + 1), GFP_KERNEL);
>>  	if (ids == NULL) {
>>  		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Unable to allocate ID table\n",
>>  			driver_name);
>> @@ -659,8 +659,6 @@ static int __init vme_user_init(void)
>>  		goto err_id;
>>  	}
>>  
>> -	memset(ids, 0, (sizeof(struct vme_device_id) * (bus_num + 1)));
>> -
>>  	for (i = 0; i < bus_num; i++) {
>>  		ids[i].bus = bus[i];
>>  		/*
> 
> 


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