netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethernet/broadcom: Use zeroing memory allocator than allocator/memset

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Message-Id: <20180102.215649.684091832316614533.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:56:49 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     himanshujha199640@...il.com
Cc:     michael.chan@...adcom.com, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        mcgrof@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethernet/broadcom: Use zeroing memory allocator than
 allocator/memset

From: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2017 21:14:57 +0530

> Use dma_zalloc_coherent for allocating zeroed
> memory and remove unnecessary memset function.
> 
> Done using Coccinelle.
> Generated-by: scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/kzalloc-simple.cocci
> 0-day tested with no failures.
> 
> Suggested-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha <himanshujha199640@...il.com>

Applied.