linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/5] drivers/net: drop redundant memset

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Message-Id: <20100315.154714.23695928.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	julia@...u.dk
Cc:	ram.vepa@...erion.com, santosh.rastapur@...erion.com,
	sivakumar.subramani@...erion.com, sreenivasa.honnur@...erion.com,
	anil.murthy@...erion.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] drivers/net: drop redundant memset

From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2010 22:14:11 +0100 (CET)

> From: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
> 
> The region set by the call to memset is immediately overwritten by the
> subsequent call to memcpy.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> expression e1,e2,e3,e4;
> @@
> 
> - memset(e1,e2,e3);
>   memcpy(e1,e4,e3);
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>

Applied, thanks!
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