* [patch 1/2] trivial: preferred form for passing a size of struct
@ 2011-05-17 17:28 anish
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From: anish @ 2011-05-17 17:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: linux, lethal; +Cc: linux-fbdev, linux-kernel
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>
---
drivers/video/amba-clcd.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c b/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
index 5fc983c..cb7ec86 100644
--- a/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
+++ b/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@ static int clcdfb_probe(struct amba_device *dev, const struct amba_id *id)
goto out;
}
- fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct clcd_fb), GFP_KERNEL);
+ fb = kzalloc(sizeof(*fb), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!fb) {
printk(KERN_INFO "CLCD: could not allocate new clcd_fb struct\n");
ret = -ENOMEM;
--
1.7.0.4
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