2.6.19-mm1: gotemp: memset(..., 0) error

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Wed Dec 13 2006 - 08:06:11 EST


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...
NOT FOR MAINLINE!

This is for the driver tutorial I give. It will not be included in the
mainline kernel tree ever. Use the ldusb driver that is already there
instead for this device.

This is only a teaching tool.
...
+ pkt = kmalloc(sizeof(*pkt), GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (!pkt)
+ return -ENOMEM;
+ memset(pkt, sizeof(*pkt), 0x00);
...

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Lesson 1:
Write an USB driver.

Lesson 2:
Correct the memset() argument order or use kzalloc().


cu
Adrian ;-)

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of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

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