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Re: [KJ] replacing kmalloc with kzalloc in drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c

From: Robert P. J. Day <hidden>
Date: 2007-08-13 16:54:36
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On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Surya Prabhakar N wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Hi,
   Replacing kmalloc with kzalloc and cleaning up memset in
drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c


Signed-off-by: Surya Prabhakar <redacted>
---
diff --git a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
index e7fdcf1..2dca5a7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sb1250-mac.c
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ static void sbdma_initctx(sbmacdma_t *d,

 	d->sbdma_dscrtable_unaligned =
 	d->sbdma_dscrtable = (sbdmadscr_t *)
                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-		kmalloc((d->sbdma_maxdescr+1)*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+		kzalloc((d->sbdma_maxdescr+1)*sizeof(sbdmadscr_t), GFP_KERNEL);
i'm fairly sure you can drop all of those superfluous casts when
calling one of those memory allocation routines.

rday
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