linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Remove redundant memset

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Date:   Tue, 18 Jun 2019 23:55:07 +0530
From:   Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
To:     Adham Abozaeid <adham.abozaeid@...rochip.com>,
        Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@...rochip.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: Remove redundant memset

alloc_etherdev function internally calls kvzalloc . So we may not need
explicit memset after this call.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Kelam <hariprasad.kelam@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c
index ba78c08..c4efec2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_netdev.c
@@ -1010,7 +1010,6 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc, struct device *dev, int io_type,
 		}
 
 		vif = netdev_priv(ndev);
-		memset(vif, 0, sizeof(struct wilc_vif));
 
 		if (i == 0) {
 			strcpy(ndev->name, "wlan%d");
-- 
2.7.4