From: Rene Herman <rene.herman@keyaccess.nl>
To: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>, Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>,
Adam M Belay <abelay@mit.edu>, Li Shaohua <shaohua.li@intel.com>,
Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>,
Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 11/28] PNP: whitespace/coding style fixes
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:02:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486698E4.4030905@keyaccess.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1214682983.8758.66.camel@localhost>
On 28-06-08 21:56, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 16:57 -0600, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
>> Index: work10/drivers/pnp/interface.c
>> ===================================================================
>> --- work10.orig/drivers/pnp/interface.c 2008-05-09 14:42:25.000000000 -0600
>> +++ work10/drivers/pnp/interface.c 2008-05-09 14:45:57.000000000 -0600
>> @@ -216,12 +216,12 @@ static ssize_t pnp_show_options(struct d
>> struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
>> {
>> struct pnp_dev *dev = to_pnp_dev(dmdev);
>> + pnp_info_buffer_t *buffer;
>> struct pnp_option *independent = dev->independent;
>> struct pnp_option *dependent = dev->dependent;
>> int ret, dep = 1;
>>
>> - pnp_info_buffer_t *buffer = (pnp_info_buffer_t *)
>> - pnp_alloc(sizeof(pnp_info_buffer_t));
>> + buffer = pnp_alloc(sizeof(pnp_info_buffer_t));
>> if (!buffer)
>> return -ENOMEM;
>
> Wouldn't it be nicer without the unnecessary cast?
>
> pnp_info_buffer_t *buffer = pnp_alloc(sizeof(*buffer));
He deleted the cast (the sizeof(type) versus sizeof(var) thing is mostly
personal preference).
Rene.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-28 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20080627225651.663174474@ldl.fc.hp.com>
2008-06-28 4:36 ` [patch 00/28] PNP: convert fixed tables to lists, v4 Len Brown
[not found] ` <20080627225800.517972351@ldl.fc.hp.com>
2008-06-28 19:56 ` [patch 11/28] PNP: whitespace/coding style fixes Joe Perches
2008-06-28 20:02 ` Rene Herman [this message]
2008-06-17 22:58 [patch 00/28] PNP: convert fixed tables to lists, v3 Bjorn Helgaas
2008-06-17 22:58 ` [patch 11/28] PNP: whitespace/coding style fixes Bjorn Helgaas
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