linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset().

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Date:	Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:55:16 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Cyril Roelandt <tipecaml@...il.com>
Cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yongjun_wei@...ndmicro.com.cn,
	marcos.souza.org@...il.com, Larry.Finger@...inger.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8712: avoid a useless call to memset().

On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 01:31:50AM +0100, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
> On 12/05/2012 08:11 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 02:22:02AM +0100, Cyril Roelandt wrote:
> >>In r8711_wx_get_wap(), make sure we do not call memcpy() on a memory area that
> >>has just been zeroed by a call to memset().
> >>
> >
> >I look at it like the original code is fine.  Your version is also
> >fine but is it worth the churn?  Also the curly braces are not
> >needed.
> >
> 
> Sorry about the braces.
> 
> I just thought the code would be easier to understand this way, but
> it's probably OK to leave it as it currently is too.
> 

Ah.  I'd buy that.  I like readability fixes.  The indenting is also
messed up and confusing.  It should be:

	if (check_fwstate(pmlmepriv, _FW_LINKED | WIFI_ADHOC_MASTER_STATE |
				     WIFI_AP_STATE))
		memcpy(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, pcur_bss->MacAddress, ETH_ALEN);
	else
		memset(wrqu->ap_addr.sa_data, 0, ETH_ALEN);

regards,
dan carpenter
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