linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/5] staging/gdm72xx: use kzalloc for phydev and udev

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:56:54 +0545
From:	Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Sage Ahn <syahn@...semi.com>,
	Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 2/5] staging/gdm72xx: use kzalloc for phydev and udev

we are doing kmalloc and memset, can be done using kzalloc itself.

Signed-off-by: Devendra Naga <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_usb.c |    7 ++-----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_usb.c b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_usb.c
index 126150d..3dee4d4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_usb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_usb.c
@@ -590,20 +590,17 @@ static int gdm_usb_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	phy_dev = kmalloc(sizeof(*phy_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	phy_dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*phy_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (phy_dev == NULL) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
-	udev = kmalloc(sizeof(*udev), GFP_KERNEL);
+	udev = kzalloc(sizeof(*udev), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (udev == NULL) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	memset(phy_dev, 0, sizeof(*phy_dev));
-	memset(udev, 0, sizeof(*udev));
-
 	if (idProduct == 0x7205 || idProduct == 0x7206)
 		udev->padding = GDM7205_PADDING;
 	else
-- 
1.7.9.5

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