Re: [PATCH] 8139too thread termination

[Robert Kuebel <kuebelr@email.uc.edu>]

i was so wrapped up in digging through kmalloc(), that i missed the
memset() in alloc_netdev().  duh!

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:18:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Robert Kuebel wrote:
> > 
> > ok, i am wondering if i have made a mistake.  this patch will make the
> > kernel thread die when tp->time_to_die is true.  tp is kmalloc()'ed
> > inside of alloc_etherdev.  i didn't initialize time_to_die to 0, but
> > this patch has been working perfectly for me.  am i just lucky or are
> > kmalloc()'ed regions zero'ed out?
> 
> And here I thought you did it on purpose :)
> 
> alloc_etherdev zeroes memory it allocates, so in net drivers all private
> structures can be considered initialized to zero when you get them.
> 
> 	Jeff
> 
> 
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