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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:17:12 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] arch/x86: Use offsetof
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To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>, tglx@linutronix.de, viro@ftp.linux.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:01:38PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> The right way to do it is:
> 
> 	memset(&info.vm86plus, 0, sizeof info.vm86plus);

If it's just one field _and_ we don't have padding we want to zero out -
certainly...