From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] netprio_cgroup: explicitly init the early_init field Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:13:15 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140422.121315.929124038777369470.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1398144722-9864-1-git-send-email-nasa4836@gmail.com> <20140422111906.GD17116@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nhorman@tuxdriver.com, tj@kernel.org, daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de, gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com, stephen@networkplumber.org, jiri@resnulli.us, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: nasa4836@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Jianyu Zhan Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:25:41 +0800 > I don't think that the value of one field(early_init) has a so subtle > restrition on the another field(css_alloc) is a good thing, but since > it is there, docment it should be needed. This is not a reasonable change. We depend upon implicit initialization to zero all over the kernel, and adding explicit assignments hurts rather then helps.