Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 19:18:50 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 8139too thread termination |
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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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