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SubjectRe: [PATCH] 8139too thread termination
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i was so wrapped up in digging through kmalloc(), that i missed the
memset() in alloc_netdev(). duh!

On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:18:50PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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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