linux-kernel - 2.6.19-mm1: gotemp: memset(..., 0) error

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Date:	Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:05:59 +0100
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: 2.6.19-mm1: gotemp: memset(..., 0) error

<--  snip  -->

...
NOT FOR MAINLINE!

This is for the driver tutorial I give.  It will not be included in the
mainline kernel tree ever.  Use the ldusb driver that is already there
instead for this device.

This is only a teaching tool.
...
+       pkt = kmalloc(sizeof(*pkt), GFP_ATOMIC);
+       if (!pkt)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       memset(pkt, sizeof(*pkt), 0x00);
...

<--  snip  -->


Lesson 1:
Write an USB driver.

Lesson 2:
Correct the memset() argument order or use kzalloc().


cu
Adrian  ;-)

-- 

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        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

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