[PATCH v2] staging: sm750fb: Remove redundant NULL and zero assignments in probe

From: Temitope obabi

Date: Mon Oct 19 2026 - 16:26:12 EST


The sm750_dev structure is allocated with devm_kzalloc() just above,
so its memory is already zeroed. Remove the explicit NULL assignments
to fbinfo[0] and fbinfo[1] and the zero assignment to mtrr.vram, which
only set fields that are already zero.

Signed-off-by: Temitope obabi <obabitemitope765@xxxxxxxxx>

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Changes in v2:
- Remove an accidental duplicate of the note at the end of the patch.
No code changes.

Note: Greg replied to my earlier sm750fb patch that keeping the
explicit zero assignments is good because it is clear what is
happening. In that patch the allocation was in a different function.
Here the assignments are in lynxfb_pci_probe(), just after the
devm_kzalloc() call and its NULL check, so I think removing them may
still be useful.


drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
index 8b93bfeb217b..8702f6313f78 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750.c
@@ -969,13 +969,10 @@ static int lynxfb_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
if (!sm750_dev)
return err;

- sm750_dev->fbinfo[0] = NULL;
- sm750_dev->fbinfo[1] = NULL;
sm750_dev->devid = pdev->device;
sm750_dev->revid = pdev->revision;
sm750_dev->pdev = pdev;
sm750_dev->mtrr_off = g_nomtrr;
- sm750_dev->mtrr.vram = 0;
sm750_dev->accel_off = g_noaccel;
spin_lock_init(&sm750_dev->slock);

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