[PATCH] drivers/net: remove superfluous memset
This patch covers something like this:
dev = alloc_*dev(...
...
priv = netdev_priv(dev);
memset(priv, 0, sizeof(*priv));
The memset() here is superfluous. alloc_netdev() uses kzalloc()
to allocate needed memory so there is no need to zero the priv region
twice.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
index 5dc89d50..2812b52 100644
--- a/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
@@ -956,7 +956,6 @@
SET_MODULE_OWNER(ndev);
fep = netdev_priv(ndev);
- memset(fep, 0, privsize); /* clear everything */
fep->dev = dev;
dev_set_drvdata(dev, ndev);
diff --git a/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c b/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
index 48b23c5..6dc28b8 100644
--- a/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
+++ b/drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c
@@ -2956,7 +2956,6 @@
SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pdev->dev);
mgp = netdev_priv(netdev);
- memset(mgp, 0, sizeof(*mgp));
mgp->dev = netdev;
netif_napi_add(netdev, &mgp->napi,
myri10ge_poll, myri10ge_napi_weight);
diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index af16553..dcd66a6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -329,7 +329,6 @@
SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pdev->dev);
adapter = netdev->priv;
- memset(adapter, 0 , sizeof(struct netxen_adapter));
adapter->ahw.pdev = pdev;
adapter->ahw.pci_func = pci_func_id;
diff --git a/drivers/net/sunlance.c b/drivers/net/sunlance.c
index 68e4f66..e94b752 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sunlance.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sunlance.c
@@ -1335,7 +1335,6 @@
return -ENOMEM;
lp = netdev_priv(dev);
- memset(lp, 0, sizeof(*lp));
if (sparc_lance_debug && version_printed++ == 0)
printk (KERN_INFO "%s", version);
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
index 04cba6b..0683892 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/pegasus.c
@@ -1306,7 +1306,6 @@
}
pegasus = netdev_priv(net);
- memset(pegasus, 0, sizeof (struct pegasus));
pegasus->dev_index = dev_index;
init_waitqueue_head(&pegasus->ctrl_wait);
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c
index fa598f0..3b3a57e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/rtl8150.c
@@ -905,7 +905,6 @@
}
dev = netdev_priv(netdev);
- memset(dev, 0, sizeof(rtl8150_t));
dev->intr_buff = kmalloc(INTBUFSIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
if (!dev->intr_buff) {