linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] char/tpm: Improve a size determination in nine functions

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Date:   Wed, 18 Oct 2017 17:40:01 +0300
From:   Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Corentin Labbe <clabbe.montjoie@...il.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@...idianresearch.com>,
        Jerry Snitselaar <jsnitsel@...hat.com>,
        Kenneth Goldman <kgold@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Peter Hüwe <PeterHuewe@....de>,
        Stefan Berger <stefanb@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] char/tpm: Improve a size determination in nine
 functions

On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 02:03:02PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 19:33 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:28:17 +0200
> > 
> > Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
> > as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding
> > size
> > determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style
> > convention.
> 
> 
> This patch does one style in favor of the other.
> 
> At the end it's Jarkko's call, though I would NAK this as I think some
> one already told this to you for some other similar patch(es).
> 
> 
> I even would suggest to stop doing this noisy stuff, which keeps people
> busy for nothing.

I favor using "sizeof(*foo)" for pointers but as a part of a commit where
something useful is done to the corresponding line of code.

So, I would say it's a NAK.

/Jarkko