linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] Staging: rtl8188eu: Removed unnecessarry code.

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Date:	Fri, 8 Aug 2014 12:05:38 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Adrian Remonda <adrianremonda@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Larry.Finger@...inger.net
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] Staging: rtl8188eu: Removed unnecessarry code.

On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 11:37:51PM +0200, Adrian Remonda wrote:
> This patch clear some code that was not doing any help.
> Pointed out by Larry.Finger
> 

The patch is fine but the changelog doesn't inpsire confidence.  It
should say:

This patch removes some unneeded code.
1) kzalloc() allocates 4 extra bytes so that we can align the return
   value.  But actually the return value is already aligned so we can
   remove the + 4 and the call to N_BYTE_ALIGMENT().
2) The memset() isn't needed because kzalloc() zeroes the allocation.

Suggested-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>

regards,
dan carpenter

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