From: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Cc: nouveau-PD4FTy7X32lNgt0PjOBp9y5qC8QIuHrW@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [libdrm PATCH RFC] nouveau: zero structs passed to ioctl
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 16:43:14 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100112154314.GH2984@joi.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6fcc0a1001120721w2842ea6fq393a1abd880cfd85-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 05:21:51PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Marcin Slusarz
> <marcin.slusarz-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > Subject: [libdrm PATCH] nouveau: zero structs passed to ioctl
>
> Why?
To make it more reliable/predictable when someone will add a new
field or start to use now unused field on the kernel side.
> Any specific bug?
No, all of these structs have unused or uninitialized fields which
valgrind complained about.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-12 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-12 14:37 [libdrm PATCH RFC] nouveau: zero structs passed to ioctl Marcin Slusarz
[not found] ` <20100112143702.GC2984-OI9uyE9O0yo@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-12 15:21 ` Alexey Dobriyan
[not found] ` <b6fcc0a1001120721w2842ea6fq393a1abd880cfd85-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-12 15:43 ` Marcin Slusarz [this message]
[not found] ` <20100112154314.GH2984-OI9uyE9O0yo@public.gmane.org>
2010-01-12 15:45 ` Marcin Slusarz
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