linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V2] staging: r8188eu: Drop redundant memset overwritten by memcpy

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Message-ID: <Ypc89GXegCft+vEq@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 1 Jun 2022 12:18:28 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>
Cc:     larry.finger@...inger.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, phil@...lpotter.co.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] staging: r8188eu: Drop redundant memset overwritten
 by memcpy

On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 06:05:26PM +0800, Haowen Bai wrote:
> The region set by the call to memset is immediately overwritten by the
> subsequent call to memcpy. So we drop redundant memset.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haowen Bai <baihaowen@...zu.com>
> ---
> V1->V2: change title for unique subjects.

That's not really unique, why is this just not 1 patch with both changes
in it as you are doing the same thing to the same driver source, just in
different locations in the files.

Please merge together.

thanks,

greg k-h