Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 30 Oct 2001 16:17:42 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | 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? i know there is stuff like > get_zeroed_page(), but i don't think that applies here. i guess it > doesn't hurt to set the flag to zero myself. >
alloc_etherdev->alloc_netdev->memset(dev, 0, alloc_size);
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