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/smc9194.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 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) { -- 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