From 627ad5951b5f26585ed11ac3afb2aa4a872aec23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Klauser Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 05:41:31 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] smc9194: Remove unnecessary memset of netdev private data The memory for the private data is allocated using kzalloc in alloc_etherdev (or alloc_netdev_mq respectively) so there is no need to set it to 0 again. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/smc9194.c | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/smc9194.c b/drivers/net/smc9194.c index e94521c..d76c815 100644 --- a/drivers/net/smc9194.c +++ b/drivers/net/smc9194.c @@ -1042,9 +1042,6 @@ static int __init smc_probe(struct net_device *dev, int ioaddr) */ printk("ADDR: %pM\n", dev->dev_addr); - /* set the private data to zero by default */ - memset(netdev_priv(dev), 0, sizeof(struct smc_local)); - /* Grab the IRQ */ retval = request_irq(dev->irq, smc_interrupt, 0, DRV_NAME, dev); if (retval) { -- 2.7.4