netdev - Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx4_en: get rid of private net_device

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Date:	Thu, 26 May 2016 05:59:40 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Tariq Toukan <ttoukan.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Willem de Bruijn <willemb@...gle.com>,
	Eugenia Emantayev <eugenia@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 4/4] net/mlx4_en: get rid of private net_device_stats

On Thu, 2016-05-26 at 12:38 +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Thanks for the fix.
> 
> > We do not need to clear fields that are already 0.
> Why is it always true that dev->stats is already 0 at the point ndo_open 
> is called?

netdev structs are zero allocated. (kzalloc)