From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de>
To: The list for a Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking
<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 9/9] batman-adv: Calculate sizeof using variable insead of types
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 10:07:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201105191007.04614.lindner_marek@yahoo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305407694-16789-9-git-send-email-sven@narfation.org>
On Saturday 14 May 2011 23:14:54 Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> Documentation/CodingStyle recommends to use the form
>
> p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
>
> to calculate the size of a struct and not the version where the struct
> name is spelled out to prevent bugs when the type of p changes. This
> also seems appropriate for manipulation of buffers when they are
> directly associated wi
Applied in revision 1929981.
Thanks,
Marek
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 8:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-14 21:14 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/9] batman-adv: Annotate functions with format strings Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 2/9] batman-adv: Print jiffies as unsigned long Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-18 9:35 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 3/9] batman-adv: Remove comparising < 0 for unsigned type Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-18 9:37 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 4/9] batman-adv: Don't do pointer arithmetic with void* Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-18 9:40 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 5/9] batman-adv: Add const type qualifier for pointers Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-18 10:10 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 6/9] batman-adv: Only use in up and down gw representation Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-18 10:24 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 7/9] batman-adv: Remove explicit casts cast from void* for store Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-19 7:22 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 8/9] batman-adv: Remove casts from type x to type x Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-19 7:26 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-14 21:14 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 9/9] batman-adv: Calculate sizeof using variable insead of types Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-19 8:07 ` Marek Lindner [this message]
2011-05-14 22:50 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 10/09] batman-adv: Use rcu_dereference_protected by update-side Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-19 8:12 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-15 6:36 ` [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH 1/9] batman-adv: Annotate functions with format strings Andrew Lunn
2011-05-15 7:27 ` Sven Eckelmann
2011-05-19 8:28 ` Marek Lindner
2011-05-18 9:32 ` Marek Lindner
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=201105191007.04614.lindner_marek@yahoo.de \
--to=lindner_marek@yahoo.de \
--cc=b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox