Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: rtl8723bs: Remove unnecessary comments.

[Julia Lawall]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Shreeya Patel wrote:

> The comments regarding memset are not needed in the
> files which have been modified since the necessary changes
> are already there in the files.

The comments don't look very useful, but I don't understand "since the
necessary changes are alread there in the files"

julia


>
> Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c     | 3 ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c | 3 ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c     | 3 ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c     | 3 ---
>  4 files changed, 12 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> index 6b77820..5b583f7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme.c
> @@ -28,9 +28,6 @@ sint	_rtw_init_mlme_priv(struct adapter *padapter)
>  	struct mlme_priv 	*pmlmepriv = &padapter->mlmepriv;
>  	sint	res = _SUCCESS;
>
> -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> -	/* memset((u8 *)pmlmepriv, 0, sizeof(struct mlme_priv)); */
> -
>  	pmlmepriv->nic_hdl = (u8 *)padapter;
>
>  	pmlmepriv->pscanned = NULL;
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> index b6d137f..ca35c1c 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_mlme_ext.c
> @@ -474,9 +474,6 @@ int	init_mlme_ext_priv(struct adapter *padapter)
>  	struct mlme_priv *pmlmepriv = &(padapter->mlmepriv);
>  	struct mlme_ext_info *pmlmeinfo = &(pmlmeext->mlmext_info);
>
> -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> -	/* memset((u8 *)pmlmeext, 0, sizeof(struct mlme_ext_priv)); */
> -
>  	pmlmeext->padapter = padapter;
>
>  	/* fill_fwpriv(padapter, &(pmlmeext->fwpriv)); */
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> index 68a6303..9c08307 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_recv.c
> @@ -46,9 +46,6 @@ sint _rtw_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv *precvpriv, struct adapter *padapter)
>  	union recv_frame *precvframe;
>  	sint	res = _SUCCESS;
>
> -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> -	/* memset((unsigned char *)precvpriv, 0, sizeof (struct  recv_priv)); */
> -
>  	spin_lock_init(&precvpriv->lock);
>
>  	_rtw_init_queue(&precvpriv->free_recv_queue);
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> index 022f654..8cd05f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/core/rtw_xmit.c
> @@ -51,9 +51,6 @@ s32	_rtw_init_xmit_priv(struct xmit_priv *pxmitpriv, struct adapter *padapter)
>  	struct xmit_frame *pxframe;
>  	sint	res = _SUCCESS;
>
> -	/*  We don't need to memset padapter->XXX to zero, because adapter is allocated by vzalloc(). */
> -	/* memset((unsigned char *)pxmitpriv, 0, sizeof(struct xmit_priv)); */
> -
>  	spin_lock_init(&pxmitpriv->lock);
>  	spin_lock_init(&pxmitpriv->lock_sctx);
>  	sema_init(&pxmitpriv->xmit_sema, 0);
> --
> 2.7.4
>
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