From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Robert Kuebel <kuebelr@email.uc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 8139too thread termination
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:18:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BDF436A.AE664A99@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011029232508.A305@cartman> <20011030191152.A898@cartman>
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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-31 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-30 4:25 [PATCH] 8139too thread termination Robert Kuebel
2001-10-31 0:11 ` Robert Kuebel
2001-10-31 0:17 ` Andrew Morton
2001-10-31 0:18 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-10-31 0:30 ` Robert Kuebel
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