From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932354AbcHWPkf (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:40:35 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0218.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.218]:51952 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754474AbcHWPkS (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Aug 2016 11:40:18 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1537:1567:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2194:2199:2393:2559:2562:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3870:3874:4321:5007:6117:7903:10004:10128:10400:10848:11232:11658:11914:12517:12519:12740:13069:13311:13357:13439:14659:21080:21433:30054:30070:30083:30091,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0,LFtime:2,LUA_SUMMARY:none X-HE-Tag: coat66_75e0588c74d19 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1598 Message-ID: <1471966808.3746.109.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: net: Zeroing the structure ethtool_wolinfo in ethtool_get_wol() From: Joe Perches To: Loganaden Velvindron Cc: Luis Henriques , Avijit Kanti Das , "David S . Miller" , Ben Hutchings , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 08:40:08 -0700 In-Reply-To: References: <1471959668-18209-1-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> <1471959668-18209-2-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com> <1471961184.3746.92.camel@perches.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 19:27 +0400, Loganaden Velvindron wrote: > Better be safe than sorry. Better still would be to create a tool via something like coccinelle that could be run on the entire kernel than submit a single patch for a construct that likely occurs dozens of times in the kernel source tree. (and please do not send html formatted emails to lkml)