netdev - Re: [PATCH] gianfar: Use memset instead of cacheable

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Message-Id: <20090428.080420.86723596.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:04:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	galak@...nel.crashing.org
Cc:	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gianfar: Use memset instead of cacheable_memzero

From: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:14:01 -0500

> cacheable_memzero() is completely overkill for the clearing out the FCB
> block which is only 8-bytes.  The compiler should easily optimize this
> with memset.  Additionally, cacheable_memzero() only exists on ppc32 and
> thus breaks builds of gianfar on ppc64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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