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

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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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