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

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On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 5:55 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:48:16PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
>> 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.
>
> The warning was introduced there but the issue went back further it's
> just that checkpatch didn't detect it because of other issues.  This
> seems fine.

I appreciate for all comment. I will resend it after applying Sudip's review.

regards,
Chaehyun Lim

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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