Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 05:41:05 -0500 (EST)
From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>,
       Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2007, Alan wrote:

> > represents a kmalloc->kzalloc cleanup (there's lots of those), and
> > also see if you can replace one of these:
> >
> >   sizeof(struct blah)
> >
> > with one of these:
> >
> >   sizeof(*blahptr)
>
> Patches that do this will get rejected by the tty maintainer in favour of
> the clarity of the sizeof(struct xyz) format 8)

ok, i was just going by the recommendations of the CodingStyle guide.

rday
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