linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: visornic: remove useless memset

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Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2016 14:44:52 -0500
From:	Ben Romer <benjamin.romer@...sys.com>
To:	Hugo Camboulive <hugo.camboulive@...il.com>,
	<david.kershner@...sys.com>, <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	<Timothy.Sell@...sys.com>, <nhorman@...hat.com>
CC:	<sparmaintainer@...sys.com>, <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: visornic: remove useless memset

On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 20:22 +0000, Hugo Camboulive wrote:
> alloc_etherdev() calls alloc_netdev_mqs(), which
> already uses kzalloc/vzalloc.
> 
> This clears a sparse warning :
> drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c:1366:15: warning:
> memset with byte count of 1460112
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hugo Camboulive <hugo.camboulive@...il.com>

Tested, works fine. :)

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@...sys.com>