Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754030AbdCPWW4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:22:56 -0400 Received: from mail-pf0-f195.google.com ([209.85.192.195]:35811 "EHLO mail-pf0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752777AbdCPWWx (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Mar 2017 18:22:53 -0400 From: sunil.m@techveda.org To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, karthiknishu@yahoo.com, Suniel Mahesh Subject: [PATCH v4 4/6] staging: rtl8192e: Pass a pointer as an argument to sizeof() instead of struct Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 03:42:19 +0530 Message-Id: <1489702341-14448-5-git-send-email-sunil.m@techveda.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.9.1 In-Reply-To: <1489702341-14448-1-git-send-email-sunil.m@techveda.org> References: <20170316023641.GA6084@kroah.com> <1489702341-14448-1-git-send-email-sunil.m@techveda.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1548 Lines: 47 From: Suniel Mahesh Replaced sizeof(struct foo) into sizeof(*ptr), found by checkpatch.pl Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh --- Changes for v4: - Dropped two patches from the series, as they were not adding significant value suggested by Dan Carpenter. staging: rtl8192e: Fix coding style, this was fixing line over 80 characters. staging: rtl8192e: Fix unbalanced braces - Resending the whole series as requested by Greg K-H - Patches were tested and built on next-20170310 and staging-testing Changes for v3: - Split earlier patches into multiple commits for easy review as suggested by Greg K-H - Modified description for better readability - Rebased on top of next-20170310 - Patches were tested and built on next-20170310 and staging-testing as suggested by Greg K-H, no errors reported Changes for v2: - new patch addition to the series - Rebased on top of next-20170306 --- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c index 4f4cd07..999af05 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c @@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ static void _rtl92e_init_priv_variable(struct net_device *dev) priv->card_type = PCI; - priv->pFirmware = vzalloc(sizeof(struct rt_firmware)); + priv->pFirmware = vzalloc(sizeof(*priv->pFirmware)); if (!priv->pFirmware) return; -- 1.9.1