linux-kernel - [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/mtd/chips/cfi

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:16:47 +0530
From:	Surya Prabhakar N <surya.prabhakar@...ro.com>
To:	dwmw2@...radead.org, linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in
	drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c

Hi,
   Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in 
arch/i386/kernel/io_apic.c


Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar <surya.prabhakar@...ro.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
index 60e11a0..efb51f7 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c
@@ -203,14 +203,12 @@ static int __xipram cfi_chip_setup(struct map_info *map,
 	if (!num_erase_regions)
 		return 0;
 
-	cfi->cfiq = kmalloc(sizeof(struct cfi_ident) + num_erase_regions * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
+	cfi->cfiq = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cfi_ident) + num_erase_regions * 4, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!cfi->cfiq) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: kmalloc failed for CFI ident structure\n", map->name);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	memset(cfi->cfiq,0,sizeof(struct cfi_ident));
-
 	cfi->cfi_mode = CFI_MODE_CFI;
 
 	/* Read the CFI info structure */

--
thanks 
surya.
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