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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:08:12 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/56] block: Remove void casts
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To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jeff@garzik.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 01:31:43PM +0200, Bert Wesarg wrote:
> If typeof(c) = CommandList_struct*, that you could replace
> sizeof(CommandList_struct) with sizeof(*c) to make the expression
> shorter and fit into one line.

This is not commonly accepted as a good thing.  In particular, I would
seriously ask you to avoid doing anything of that kind around fs/*