Re: [PATCH] 8139too thread termination

[Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>]

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?  i know there is stuff like
> get_zeroed_page(), but i don't think that applies here.  i guess it
> doesn't hurt to set the flag to zero myself.
> 

alloc_etherdev->alloc_netdev->memset(dev, 0, alloc_size);

It was zeroed for you.