Re: [PATCH 25/27] staging: wilc1000: fix coding style of kmalloc usage

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:20:28AM +0900, Chaehyun Lim wrote:
> This patch fixes coding style of kmalloc usage found by checkpatch.
> CHECK: Prefer kmalloc(sizeof(*new_msg)...) over kmalloc(sizeof(struct message)...)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chaehyun Lim <chaehyun.lim@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
> index 7107715..c7a60f4 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/wilc_msgqueue.c
> @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ int wilc_mq_send(struct message_queue *mq,
>  	}
>  
>  	/* construct a new message */
> -	new_msg = kmalloc(sizeof(struct message), GFP_ATOMIC);
> +	new_msg = kmalloc(sizeof(*new_msg), GFP_ATOMIC);

This checkpatch error was introduced by 1/27 patch of this series. Maybe
it will be better to fix it in that one.

regards
sudip
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