linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: timberdale: Improve a size determination in timbgpio

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdZNipm4spks8wdGRwG2UwxvQ87svtV9FjiCPYnwNw-62Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 22 Feb 2018 15:15:27 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
Cc:     linux-gpio@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gpio: timberdale: Improve a size determination in timbgpio_probe()

On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 9:33 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net> wrote:

> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 21:13:28 +0100
>
> Replace the specification of a data structure by a pointer dereference
> as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
> determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.
>
> This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>

Patch applied.

Yours,
Linus Walleij