linux-kernel - Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c

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Date:	Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:24:10 -0400 (EDT)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
To:	Surya Prabhakar N <surya.prabhakar@...ro.com>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Surya Prabhakar N wrote:

> Hi,
>    Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in
> drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar <surya.prabhakar@...ro.com>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
> index e7fdcf1..2dca5a7 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
> @@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static void sbdma_initctx(sbmacdma_t *d,
>
>  	d->sbdma_dscrtable_unaligned =
>  	d->sbdma_dscrtable = (sbdmadscr_t *)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> -		kmalloc((d->sbdma_maxdescr+1)*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t), GFP_KERNEL);
> +		kzalloc((d->sbdma_maxdescr+1)*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t), GFP_KERNEL);

i'm fairly sure you can drop all of those superfluous casts when
calling one of those memory allocation routines.

rday
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