linux-kernel - Re: ps3: Improve a size determination in five functions

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Date:   Wed, 20 Dec 2017 22:20:36 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Geoff Levand <geoff@...radead.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ps3: Improve a size determination in five functions

> Some observations:
> 
>  o Your patch fixes no bug nor replaces any depreciated feature.

How do you think about information from the section “14) Allocating memory”
in the document “coding-style.rst” for the shown source code transformation?


>  o There will be no functional change; …

Yes. - The suggested adjustment should work in this way generally.

Regards,
Markus