Re: [PATCH 2/5] net/9p: Improve 19 size determinations

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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 02:00:06PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:36:20 +0200
> 
> Replace the specification of data structures by variable references
> as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size
> determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.

Garbage.  This makes it so much harder to find where the objects of given
type are created.  It's _not_ safer and any patches of that sort around
VFS will be shitcanned.  What to do with net/9p patches is up to net/9p
maintainers, but I would strongly recommend the same treatment.
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