netdev - RE: [PATCH 5/5] ISDN-Gigaset: Enclose two expressions for the sizeof operator by parentheses

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Date:   Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:00:37 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'SF Markus Elfring' <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
        "gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net" 
        <gigaset307x-common@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Karsten Keil <isdn@...ux-pingi.de>,
        Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>
CC:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org" <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
        Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/5] ISDN-Gigaset: Enclose two expressions for the
 sizeof operator by parentheses

From: SF Markus Elfring
> Sent: 26 September 2016 16:45
...
> The script "checkpatch.pl" can point information out like the following.
> 
> WARNING: sizeof … should be sizeof(…)
...
> ---
>  drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> index 2e9382f..d901ed7 100644
> --- a/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> +++ b/drivers/isdn/gigaset/common.c
> @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ void gigaset_dbg_buffer(enum debuglevel level, const unsigned char *msg,
>  {
>  	unsigned char outbuf[80];
>  	unsigned char c;
> -	size_t space = sizeof outbuf - 1;
> +	size_t space = sizeof(outbuf - 1);

wrong ...
think that is 7 instead of 79.

	David