Am 17/08/2012 20:15, schrieb Matt Sealey: > Use calloc() instead of malloc() to allocate the mxs_spi_slave structure. > Clearing the memory is necessary since most of the time this gets done > super early in boot, but on warm reboots, and when SPI probing is done > long after the init stages it could actually pick up previously used memory, > and things like the chipselect polarity and other data end up being filled > with trash data if not explicitly set by the board files. > > This solves a semi-random, almost unreproducable error whereby SPI devices > act very, very strangly on boot. > > Signed-off-by: Matt Sealey <m...@genesi-usa.com> > --- > drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c b/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c > index a037c13..5fa7f2b 100644 > --- a/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c > +++ b/drivers/spi/mxs_spi.c > @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ struct spi_slave *spi_setup_slave(unsigned int bus, > unsigned int cs, > return NULL; > } > > - mxs_slave = malloc(sizeof(struct mxs_spi_slave)); > + mxs_slave = calloc(sizeof(struct mxs_spi_slave), 1); > if (!mxs_slave) > return NULL; > >
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