From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/tulip/xircom_cb.c: remove superfulous priv assignment
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 01:05:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46C13822.7040803@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708081320.26756.m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Mariusz Kozlowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Unpatched version does sth like this:
>
> dev = alloc_etherdev(...
> private = netdev_priv(dev);
> ...
> dev->priv = private;
>
> which doesn't make much sense (does it?) because this is done in
> alloc_netdev() already.
>
> struct net_device *alloc_netdev(...
> {
> ...
> if (sizeof_priv)
> dev->priv = netdev_priv(dev);
>
> This patch removes superfluous code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
applied
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-14 5:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-08 11:20 [PATCH] net/tulip/xircom_cb.c: remove superfulous priv assignment Mariusz Kozlowski
2007-08-08 20:14 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-08-14 5:05 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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