Question relating to the validity/usefulness of patching calls to sizeof. >From Documentation/process/coding-style.rst The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: .. code-block:: c p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts readability and introduces an opportunity for a bug when the pointer variable type is changed but the corresponding sizeof that is passed to a memory allocator is not.Is the distinction between Question: Is a the following a valid/useful patch or just code churn diff-- - sizeof(struct foo) + sizeof(*fp) --- _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
