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Staging: sm7xx: preferred form for passing a size to memory allocation routines

PATCH In review anish 2 participants 2 messages May 18, 2011 Staging

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PATCH 2/3 Staging: sm7xx: preferred form for passing a size to memory allocation routines

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:

         p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

Please refer Documentation/Codingstyle chapter 14

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 drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c +1 -1
index 1aca0cb..c41d2f7 100644
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ static struct smtcfb_info *smtc_alloc_fb_info(struct pci_dev *dev,
 {
 	struct smtcfb_info *sfb;
 
-	sfb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smtcfb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	sfb = kzalloc(sizeof(*sfb), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!sfb)
 		return NULL;
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Quoted 6 lines · anish

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:

         p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);

Please refer Documentation/Codingstyle chapter 14

What's with the extra spaces at the beginning of the lines?

And I never got patch 1/3 in my inbox.

You also need to put your full name in the "From:" line, like you did for the signed-off-by: line.

So, care to try again?

thanks,

greg k-h