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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Samyak <samyak.bambole07@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: use kmalloc_obj instead of kmalloc
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:02:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026021417-coconut-liking-b9db@gregkh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260214155157.663800-1-samyak.bambole07@gmail.com>

On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 09:21:57PM +0530, Samyak wrote:
> From: Samyak Bambole <samyak.bambole07@gmail.com>
> 
> Replace kmalloc(sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL) calls with kmalloc_obj(*ptr,
> GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> This addresses scripts/checkpatch.pl warnings and follows the preffered
> allocation pattern.

This is a new thing, right?  Are we going to be doing this for all
staging drivers going forward?

> Changes:
> - vme.c: 12 replacements
> - vme_fake.c: 3 replacements
> - vme_tsi148.c: 7 replacements

There's no need for these lines in the changelog text, sorry.  Can you
fix that up and resend a v2?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2026-02-14 16:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-02-14 15:51 [PATCH] staging: vme_user: use kmalloc_obj instead of kmalloc Samyak
2026-02-14 16:02 ` Greg KH [this message]
2026-02-14 16:10   ` Samyak Bambole

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