On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 10:22:06PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 22:09 -0800, Robert Eshleman wrote:
> > This patch replaces a pci_alloc_consistent and memset(,0) call
> > with a single call to pci_zalloc_consistent.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/tlan.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/tlan.c
> []
> > @@ -845,17 +845,16 @@ static int tlan_init(struct net_device *dev)
> >
> > dma_size = (TLAN_NUM_RX_LISTS + TLAN_NUM_TX_LISTS)
> > * (sizeof(struct tlan_list));
> > - priv->dma_storage = pci_alloc_consistent(priv->pci_dev,
> > - dma_size,
> > - &priv->dma_storage_dma);
> > + priv->dma_storage = pci_zalloc_consistent(priv->pci_dev,
> > + dma_size,
> > + &priv->dma_storage_dma);
> > priv->dma_size = dma_size;
> >
> > - if (priv->dma_storage == NULL) {
> > + if (!priv->dma_storage) {
> > pr_err("Could not allocate lists and buffers for %s\n",
> > dev->name);
>
> unrelated trivia:
>
> This pr_err (and likely others in this file)
> could be replace by netdev_err
>
Definitely good to know (I may make that change too). Thanks Joe.
-Bobby
