On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 07:01:45PM +0900, Chaehyun Lim wrote: >> 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. >> > > That's fine too, but the original way is more correct because it only > fixes one thing at a time and is easier to review. > I will keep the original way, even 1/27 patch was introduced a new checkpatch warning. I agree that one patch should be changed one thing. But I need to resend again because I find a wrong variable name at commit title. regards Chaehyun Lim > regards, > dan carpenter > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel