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From: anish <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
To: greg@kroah.com, teddy.wang@siliconmotion.com.cn
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, harryxiyou@gmail.com
Subject: [patch 2/3] Staging: sm7xx: preferred form for passing a size to memory allocation routines
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 22:42:08 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305738728.1881.84.camel@anish-desktop> (raw)

 The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
         p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
 Please refer Documentation/Codingstyle chapter 14

 Signed-off-by: anish kumar <anish198519851985@gmail.com>
 Acked-by: Harry Wei <harryxiyou@gmail.com>

---
 drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c b/drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c
index 1aca0cb..c41d2f7 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/sm7xx/smtcfb.c
@@ -714,7 +714,7 @@ static struct smtcfb_info *smtc_alloc_fb_info(struct pci_dev *dev,
 {
 	struct smtcfb_info *sfb;
 
-	sfb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct smtcfb_info), GFP_KERNEL);
+	sfb = kzalloc(sizeof(*sfb), GFP_KERNEL);
 
 	if (!sfb)
 		return NULL;
-- 
1.7.0.4



             reply	other threads:[~2011-05-18 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-18 17:12 anish [this message]
2011-05-18 21:17 ` Greg KH
2011-05-19 15:28 anish

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