It's cleaner to use kzalloc() instead of zeroing out in a separate call to memset(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c b/drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c index 2cdeab8..d469a9a 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/cs553x_nand.c @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static int __init cs553x_init_one(int cs, int mmio, unsigned long adr) } /* Allocate memory for MTD device structure and private data */ - new_mtd = kmalloc(sizeof(struct mtd_info) + sizeof(struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL); + new_mtd = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mtd_info) + sizeof(struct nand_chip), GFP_KERNEL); if (!new_mtd) { printk(KERN_WARNING "Unable to allocate CS553X NAND MTD device structure.\n"); err = -ENOMEM; @@ -207,10 +207,6 @@ static int __init cs553x_init_one(int cs, int mmio, unsigned long adr) /* Get pointer to private data */ this = (struct nand_chip *)(&new_mtd[1]); - /* Initialize structures */ - memset(new_mtd, 0, sizeof(struct mtd_info)); - memset(this, 0, sizeof(struct nand_chip)); - /* Link the private data with the MTD structure */ new_mtd->priv = this; new_mtd->owner = THIS_MODULE; -- 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