linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/boot: sizeof macro

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Date:   Fri, 29 Dec 2017 20:34:47 +0100
From:   hacku <cpu808694@...il.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
Cc:     "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch/x86/boot: sizeof macro

Coding style for sizeof . If you check this file with checkpatch.pl you 
will see warning on this line. Yes, sorry I didn't mark this change as a 
coding style issue.

best regards,
Saidgani.

On 12/29/2017 07:41 PM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 8:30 PM, Saidgani Musaev <cpu808694@...il.com> wrote:
>
> No changelog, no explanation why...
> No SoB tag...
>
>> -       ireg.cx  = sizeof buf;
>> +       ireg.cx  = sizeof(buf);
> sizeof is operator, not a function.
> So, what are you trying to achieve?
>