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([2401:4900:8817:dac0:96bb:43ff:fec0:e782]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 98e67ed59e1d1-35662e538d6sm15220827a91.3.2026.02.14.08.10.32 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:10:33 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 21:40:31 +0530 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: use kmalloc_obj instead of kmalloc To: Greg KH Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20260214155157.663800-1-samyak.bambole07@gmail.com> <2026021417-coconut-liking-b9db@gregkh> Content-Language: en-US From: Samyak Bambole In-Reply-To: <2026021417-coconut-liking-b9db@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 2/14/26 9:32 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:21:57PM +0530, Samyak wrote: >> From: Samyak Bambole >> >> Replace kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL) calls with kmalloc_obj(*ptr, >> GFP_KERNEL) >> >> This addresses scripts/checkpatch.pl warnings and follows the preffered >> allocation pattern. > > This is a new thing, right? Are we going to be doing this for all > staging drivers going forward? Yeah I'm pretty sure it is relatively new, it was documented in Documentation/process/deprecated.rst. I would be happy to make this replacement in other staging drivers if that would be useful > >> Changes: >> - vme.c: 12 replacements >> - vme_fake.c: 3 replacements >> - vme_tsi148.c: 7 replacements > > There's no need for these lines in the changelog text, sorry. Can you > fix that up and resend a v2? > > thanks, > > greg k-h Thanks for the feedback, I'll make the modifications and send a v2. Thanks, Samyak Bambole