linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] preferred form for passing a size to memory allocation routines

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Message-ID: <20110515093655.GA2768@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 15 May 2011 17:37:09 +0800
From:	Harry Wei <jiaweiwei.xiyou@...il.com>
To:	anish <anish198519851985@...il.com>
Cc:	greg@...ah.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] preferred form for passing a size to memory
 allocation routines

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:25:04PM +0530, anish wrote:
> The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
>          p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
> Please refer Documentation/Codingstyle chapter 14
> Signed-off-by: anish kumar<anish198519851985@...il.com>
> - sfb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smtcfb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
> + sfb = kzalloc(sizeof(*sfb), GFP_KERNEL);
Hi anish,
	Good catch ;)
Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@...il.com>
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