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 <tklauser@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/3c507.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/3c507.c b/drivers/net/3c507.c index b32b7a1..9e95afa 100644 --- a/drivers/net/3c507.c +++ b/drivers/net/3c507.c @@ -449,7 +449,6 @@ static int __init el16_probe1(struct net_device *dev, int ioaddr) pr_debug("%s", version); lp = netdev_priv(dev); - memset(lp, 0, sizeof(*lp)); spin_lock_init(&lp->lock); lp->base = ioremap(dev->mem_start, RX_BUF_END); if (!lp->base) { -- 1.6.3.3 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html