netdev - [PATCH] net: remove unnecessary initializations in net_dev

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Date:	Sat, 18 Jan 2014 16:04:11 +0100
From:	Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
Subject: [PATCH] net: remove unnecessary initializations in net_dev_init

softnet_data is set to 0 by memset, no need to initialize specific
fields to 0 or NULL afterwards.

Signed-off-by: Sabrina Dubroca <sd@...asysnail.net>
---
 net/core/dev.c | 9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 288df62..b57b44a2 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -7000,25 +7000,16 @@ static int __init net_dev_init(void)
 		memset(sd, 0, sizeof(*sd));
 		skb_queue_head_init(&sd->input_pkt_queue);
 		skb_queue_head_init(&sd->process_queue);
-		sd->completion_queue = NULL;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sd->poll_list);
-		sd->output_queue = NULL;
 		sd->output_queue_tailp = &sd->output_queue;
 #ifdef CONFIG_RPS
 		sd->csd.func = rps_trigger_softirq;
 		sd->csd.info = sd;
-		sd->csd.flags = 0;
 		sd->cpu = i;
 #endif
 
 		sd->backlog.poll = process_backlog;
 		sd->backlog.weight = weight_p;
-		sd->backlog.gro_list = NULL;
-		sd->backlog.gro_count = 0;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_NET_FLOW_LIMIT
-		sd->flow_limit = NULL;
-#endif
 	}
 
 	dev_boot_phase = 0;
-- 
1.8.5.3

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