linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: zxdma: fix memset that is currently doing nothing

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Date:	Fri, 9 Oct 2015 16:50:39 +0100
From:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
To:	Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>
Cc:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>, dmaengine@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dmaengine: zxdma: fix memset that is currently doing
 nothing

On Thu, Oct 08, 2015 at 06:01:34PM +0100, Colin King wrote:
> From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@...onical.com>
> 
> The size and value arguments are swapped in the call to memset
> effectively making it a no-op because of the zero size.  Swap
> these arguments around to do the memset correctly.

Sorry you are late! You should always sync to target tree before generating
a patch

commit 1a492ac2b87b05c8a175478e79d3c74511c74921
Author: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
Date:   Thu Oct 1 07:11:48 2015 +0530

    dmaengine: zxdma: fix memset call
    
    Fix the call to memset in this driver
    [linux-4.2-next-20150911/drivers/dma/zx296702_dma.c:444]: (warning)
    memset() called to fill 0 bytes of 'ds'.
    
    Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@...mail.com>
    Signed-off-by: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>

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~Vinod
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