linux-kernel - [PATCH 53] Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

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Message-Id: <200707312322.18508.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:22:18 +0200
From:	Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, dwmw2@...radead.org,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 53] Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl: kmalloc + memset conversion to kzalloc

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>

 Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl |    5 +----
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-a/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl	2007-07-26 13:07:45.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.23-rc1-mm1-b/Documentation/DocBook/mtdnand.tmpl	2007-07-31 12:16:02.000000000 +0200
@@ -275,16 +275,13 @@ int __init board_init (void)
 	int err = 0;

 	/* Allocate memory for MTD device structure and private data */
-	board_mtd = kmalloc (sizeof(struct mtd_info) + sizeof (struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
+	board_mtd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mtd_info) + sizeof(struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!board_mtd) {
 		printk ("Unable to allocate NAND MTD device structure.\n");
 		err = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}

-	/* Initialize structures */
-	memset ((char *) board_mtd, 0, sizeof(struct mtd_info) + sizeof(struct nand_chip));
-
 	/* map physical adress */
 	baseaddr = (unsigned long)ioremap(CHIP_PHYSICAL_ADDRESS, 1024);
 	if(!baseaddr){
-
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