[patch 1/2] trivial: preferred form for passing a size of struct

From: anish
Date: Tue May 17 2011 - 13:28:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxx>

---
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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