On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Tobin C. Harding <[email protected]> wrote:
> Question relating to the validity/usefulness of patching calls to sizeof. > > >From Documentation/process/coding-style.rst > > The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: > > .. code-block:: c > > p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); > > The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts readability and > introduces an opportunity for a bug when the pointer variable type is > changed > but the corresponding sizeof that is passed to a memory allocator is > not.Is the distinction between > > > Question: > > Is a the following a valid/useful patch or just code churn > > diff-- > > - sizeof(struct foo) > + sizeof(*fp) > > That should depend on consistency of convention in whole file. If there are multiple instance of this in same file(or whole module), it might not make sense to change them all. > --- > > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > -- Thank you Warm Regards Anuz
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