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Date:	Wed,  9 Sep 2009 13:07:44 +0200
From:	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Subject: [PATCH] dm9000: Remove unnecessary memset of netdev private data

The memory for the private data is allocated using kzalloc in
alloc_etherdev (or alloc_netdev_mq respectively) so there is no need to
set it to 0 again.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
---
 drivers/net/dm9000.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/dm9000.c b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
index 00a9db8..11995ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/dm9000.c
+++ b/drivers/net/dm9000.c
@@ -1213,7 +1213,6 @@ dm9000_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	/* setup board info structure */
 	db = netdev_priv(ndev);
-	memset(db, 0, sizeof(*db));
 
 	db->dev = &pdev->dev;
 	db->ndev = ndev;
-- 
1.6.0.4

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