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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: sayli karnik <karniksayli1995@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, aditya.shankar@microchip.com,
	ganesh.krishna@microchip.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Use sizeof type *pointer instead of sizeof type
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2016 10:32:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160916083228.GA12374@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160915113508.GA6773@sayli-HP-15-Notebook-PC>

On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:05:08PM +0530, sayli karnik wrote:
> The patch uses the size of the dereference to a variable instead of it's type,
> to make the code more resistant to type changes in the future. The type of the 
> pointer variable here is the same as the type in the argument that is being
> replaced in sizeof().
> 
> Signed-off-by: sayli karnik <karniksayli1995@gmail.com>
> ---
> v2: Updated the commit message.
>  drivers/staging/wilc1000/host_interface.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Please fix up the subject to say what part of the kernel you are
modifying, like the other patches are done for this driver.

thanks,

greg k-h


      reply	other threads:[~2016-09-16  8:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-15 11:35 [PATCH v2] Use sizeof type *pointer instead of sizeof type sayli karnik
2016-09-16  8:32 ` Greg KH [this message]

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