From: Leo Kim <leo.kim@xxxxxxxxx> This patch fixes the checks reported by checkpatch.pl for prefer kmalloc(sizeof(*tx_data)...) over kmalloc(sizeof(struct tx_complete_data)...) Signed-off-by: Leo Kim <leo.kim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Glen Lee <glen.lee@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c index 976964d..947c9f9 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c @@ -1236,7 +1236,7 @@ int mac_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev) return 0; } - tx_data = kmalloc(sizeof(struct tx_complete_data), GFP_ATOMIC); + tx_data = kmalloc(sizeof(*tx_data), GFP_ATOMIC); if (!tx_data) { PRINT_ER("Failed to allocate memory for tx_data structure\n"); dev_kfree_skb(skb); -- 1.9.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel