netdev - [PATCH 05/14] net/fec: no need to memzero private data

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Message-Id: <1297420342-17739-5-git-send-email-u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Date:	Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:32:13 +0100
From:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@...escale.com>, kernel@...gutronix.de
Subject: [PATCH 05/14] net/fec: no need to memzero private data

alloc_etherdev internally uses kzalloc, so the private data is already
zerod out.

Noticed-by: Lothar Waßmann <LW@...O-electronics.de>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
---
 drivers/net/fec.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/fec.c b/drivers/net/fec.c
index 8026a16..9a25e1e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fec.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fec.c
@@ -1386,7 +1386,6 @@ fec_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	/* setup board info structure */
 	fep = netdev_priv(ndev);
-	memset(fep, 0, sizeof(*fep));
 
 	ndev->base_addr = (unsigned long)ioremap(r->start, resource_size(r));
 	fep->pdev = pdev;
-- 
1.7.2.3

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