linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] bio: sizeof pointer instead of size of the pointed-to type?

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Message-ID: <20090715141828.GC5543@lenovo>
Date:	Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:18:28 +0400
From:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
To:	Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
Cc:	jens.axboe@...cle.com, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bio: sizeof pointer instead of size of the pointed-to
	type?

[Roel Kluin - Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 04:00:46PM +0200]
|
| Do not take the size of a pointer to determine the size of the pointed-to type
| 
| Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@...il.com>
| ---
| This is not yet tested. Is it correct?
| 

Hi Roel,

as far as I see -- no, it should be not changed at all.
You manage with whole structures not pointers.

	-- Cyrill
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