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[net-next,08/13] sfc: Do not initialise buffer in efx_alloc_special_buffer()

Message ID 1354336979.2640.47.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Ben Hutchings Dec. 1, 2012, 4:42 a.m. UTC
Currently we initialise the newly allocated buffer to all-1s, which is
important for event queues but not for descriptor queues.  And since
we also do that in efx_nic_init_eventq(), it is completely pointless
to do it here.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c |    3 ---
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c
index 368659d..1327f29 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/sfc/nic.c
@@ -255,9 +255,6 @@  static int efx_alloc_special_buffer(struct efx_nic *efx,
 	buffer->entries = len / EFX_BUF_SIZE;
 	BUG_ON(buffer->dma_addr & (EFX_BUF_SIZE - 1));
 
-	/* All zeros is a potentially valid event so memset to 0xff */
-	memset(buffer->addr, 0xff, len);
-
 	/* Select new buffer ID */
 	buffer->index = efx->next_buffer_table;
 	efx->next_buffer_table += buffer->entries;