[PATCH] gianfar: Use memset instead of cacheable_memzero

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Apr 29 01:04:20 EST 2009


From: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 09:14:01 -0500

> cacheable_memzero() is completely overkill for the clearing out the FCB
> block which is only 8-bytes.  The compiler should easily optimize this
> with memset.  Additionally, cacheable_memzero() only exists on ppc32 and
> thus breaks builds of gianfar on ppc64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!



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