linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] netprio_cgroup: explicitly init the early

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Message-Id: <20140422.121315.929124038777369470.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:13:15 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nasa4836@...il.com
Cc:	nhorman@...driver.com, tj@...nel.org, daniel.wagner@...-carit.de,
	gaofeng@...fujitsu.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	jiri@...nulli.us, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netprio_cgroup: explicitly init the early_init field

From: Jianyu Zhan <nasa4836@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:25:41 +0800

> I don't think that the value of one field(early_init) has a so subtle
> restrition on the another field(css_alloc) is a good thing, but since
> it is there, docment it should be needed.

This is not a reasonable change.

We depend upon implicit initialization to zero all over the kernel,
and adding explicit assignments hurts rather then helps.
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