netdev - [PATCH 3/8] KS8695: Remove unnecessary memset of netdev private data

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Date:	Thu,  6 May 2010 17:40:29 +0200
From:	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
To:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
Subject: [PATCH 3/8] KS8695: Remove unnecessary memset of netdev private data

The memory for the private data is allocated using kzalloc in
alloc_etherdev (or alloc_netdev_mq respectively) so there is no need to
set it to 0 again.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@...tanz.ch>
---
 drivers/net/arm/ks8695net.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/arm/ks8695net.c b/drivers/net/arm/ks8695net.c
index 7413a87..6404704 100644
--- a/drivers/net/arm/ks8695net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arm/ks8695net.c
@@ -1472,7 +1472,6 @@ ks8695_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	/* Configure our private structure a little */
 	ksp = netdev_priv(ndev);
-	memset(ksp, 0, sizeof(struct ks8695_priv));
 
 	ksp->dev = &pdev->dev;
 	ksp->ndev = ndev;
-- 
1.6.3.3

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