linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] staging: rtl8192u: User memset to initialize memory, instead of loop.

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Date:   Sun, 24 Jun 2018 07:26:41 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 3/8] staging: rtl8192u: User memset to initialize
 memory, instead of loop.

On Sun, 2018-06-24 at 10:57 +0100, John Whitmore wrote:
> Replaced memory initialising loop with memset, as suggested by Andy Shevchenko
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/rtl819x_HTProc.c
[]
> @@ -742,8 +742,6 @@ void HTConstructRT2RTAggElement(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, u8 *posRT2RTAgg,
>   */
>  static u8 HT_PickMCSRate(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, u8 *pOperateMCS)
>  {
> -	u8					i;
> -
>  	if (!pOperateMCS) {
>  		IEEE80211_DEBUG(IEEE80211_DL_ERR, "pOperateMCS can't be null in HT_PickMCSRate()\n");
>  		return false;
> @@ -756,8 +754,7 @@ static u8 HT_PickMCSRate(struct ieee80211_device *ieee, u8 *pOperateMCS)
>  		//legacy rate routine handled at selectedrate
>  
>  		//no MCS rate
> -		for (i = 0; i <= 15; i++)
> -			pOperateMCS[i] = 0;
> +		memset(pOperateMCS, 0, 15);

Not the same code.

Loop is <= 15, so memset should use 16