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Message-ID: <1506843929.2680.1.camel@gmail.com>
Date:   Sun, 01 Oct 2017 13:15:29 +0530
From:   Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
To:     "Tobin C. Harding" <me@...in.cc>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Staging: rtl8723bs: Remove unnecessary comments.

On Sun, 2017-10-01 at 09:42 +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 07:41:11PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> > 
> > Remove unnecessary comments which are there
> > to explain why call to memset is in comments. Both of the
> > comments are not needed as they are not very useful.
> > 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@...il.com>
> > ---
> > Changes in v2:
> >   -Remove some more unnecessary comments and make the
> >    commit message more appropriate.
> > 
> > Changes in v3:
> >   -Make the commit message in imperative form.
> Well done. You forgot the period on the commit subject. Here is a
> blog post you might like (it is
> not kernel specific but useful still IMO).
> 
> Good luck,
> Tobin.

I did the necessary changes and have sent it as v4.

Thanks.


> 
> > 
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c     | 3 ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 3 ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c  | 2 --
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c     | 4 ----
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c     | 3 ---
> >  5 files changed, 15 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> > index 6b77820..5b583f7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> > @@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ sint	_rtw_init_mlme_priv(struct adapter
> > *padapter)
> >  	struct mlme_priv 	*pmlmepriv = &padapter->mlmepriv;
> >  	sint	res = _SUCCESS;
> >  
> > -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because
> > adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> > -	/* memset((u8 *)pmlmepriv, 0, sizeof(struct mlme_priv));
> > */
> > -
> >  	pmlmepriv->nic_hdl = (u8 *)padapter;
> >  
> >  	pmlmepriv->pscanned = NULL;
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> > index b6d137f..ca35c1c 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> > @@ -474,9 +474,6 @@ int	init_mlme_ext_priv(struct adapter
> > *padapter)
> >  	struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv = &(padapter->mlmepriv);
> >  	struct mlme_ext_info *pmlmeinfo = &(pmlmeext-
> > >mlmext_info);
> >  
> > -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because
> > adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> > -	/* memset((u8 *)pmlmeext, 0, sizeof(struct
> > mlme_ext_priv)); */
> > -
> >  	pmlmeext->padapter = padapter;
> >  
> >  	/* fill_fwpriv(padapter, &(pmlmeext->fwpriv)); */
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c
> > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c
> > index aabdaaf..820a061 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_pwrctrl.c
> > @@ -1193,8 +1193,6 @@ void rtw_init_pwrctrl_priv(struct adapter
> > *padapter)
> >  
> >  void rtw_free_pwrctrl_priv(struct adapter *adapter)
> >  {
> > -	/* memset((unsigned char *)pwrctrlpriv, 0, sizeof(struct
> > pwrctrl_priv)); */
> > -
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_PNO_SUPPORT
> >  	if (pwrctrlpriv->pnlo_info != NULL)
> >  		printk("****** pnlo_info memory leak********\n");
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> > index 68a6303..73e6e41 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> > @@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ sint _rtw_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv
> > *precvpriv, struct adapter *padapter)
> >  	union recv_frame *precvframe;
> >  	sint	res = _SUCCESS;
> >  
> > -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because
> > adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> > -	/* memset((unsigned char *)precvpriv, 0, sizeof
> > (struct  recv_priv)); */
> > -
> >  	spin_lock_init(&precvpriv->lock);
> >  
> >  	_rtw_init_queue(&precvpriv->free_recv_queue);
> > @@ -65,7 +62,6 @@ sint _rtw_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv
> > *precvpriv, struct adapter *padapter)
> >  		res = _FAIL;
> >  		goto exit;
> >  	}
> > -	/* memset(precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf, 0, NR_RECVFRAME
> > * sizeof(union recv_frame) + RXFRAME_ALIGN_SZ); */
> >  
> >  	precvpriv->precv_frame_buf = (u8
> > *)N_BYTE_ALIGMENT((SIZE_PTR)(precvpriv->pallocated_frame_buf),
> > RXFRAME_ALIGN_SZ);
> >  	/* precvpriv->precv_frame_buf = precvpriv-
> > >pallocated_frame_buf + RXFRAME_ALIGN_SZ - */
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> > b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> > index 022f654..8cd05f8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> > @@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ s32	_rtw_init_xmit_priv(struct xmit_priv
> > *pxmitpriv, struct adapter *padapter)
> >  	struct xmit_frame *pxframe;
> >  	sint	res = _SUCCESS;
> >  
> > -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because
> > adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> > -	/* memset((unsigned char *)pxmitpriv, 0, sizeof(struct
> > xmit_priv)); */
> > -
> >  	spin_lock_init(&pxmitpriv->lock);
> >  	spin_lock_init(&pxmitpriv->lock_sctx);
> >  	sema_init(&pxmitpriv->xmit_sema, 0);

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