netdev - Re: [patch 15/18] drivers/net: remove superfluous memset

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Message-ID: <46C13FC3.2020706@garzik.org>
Date:	Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:38:11 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, m.kozlowski@...land.pl
Subject: Re: [patch 15/18] drivers/net: remove superfluous memset

akpm@...ux-foundation.org wrote:
> From: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
> 
> 	This patch covers something like this:
> 
> dev = alloc_*dev(...
> ...
> priv = netdev_priv(dev);
> memset(priv, 0, sizeof(*priv));
> 
> The memset() here is superfluous. alloc_netdev() uses kzalloc()
> to allocate needed memory so there is no need to zero the priv region
> twice.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@...land.pl>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c   |    1 -
>  drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c      |    1 -
>  drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c |    1 -
>  drivers/net/sunlance.c               |    1 -
>  drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c            |    1 -
>  drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c            |    1 -
>  6 files changed, 6 deletions(-)

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