linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma/amba-pl08x: add support for the Nomadik variant

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Date:	Wed, 11 Apr 2012 13:29:56 +0530
From:	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Alim Akhtar <alim.akhtar@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dma/amba-pl08x: add support for the Nomadik variant

On 4/11/2012 1:29 PM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>> >> +                             ch->locked = true;
>>> >> +                     } else
>>> >> +                             ch->locked = false;
>>> >> +             }
>>> >> +
>> >
>> > Memory for ch is allocated with kmalloc and so its default value is garbage.
>> > So we must set locked to false in else part here.
> Hm maybe better to kzalloc() the channel structs?
> 

Then, you can remove code which makes its field zero explicitly, as it is already
zero.

-- 
viresh
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