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From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>
To: rjd@xyzzy.clara.co.uk, phillips@bonn-fries.net (Daniel Phillips)
Cc: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik),
	bpringle@sympatico.ca (Bill Pringlemeir),
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Newbie idiotic questions.
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:01:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0106171701100P.00879@starship> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200106171227.f5HCRZu10829@xyzzy.clara.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <200106171227.f5HCRZu10829@xyzzy.clara.co.uk>

On Sunday 17 June 2001 14:27, rjd@xyzzy.clara.co.uk wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > because then you would be allocating the size of a pointer, not the
> > > size of a structure
> >
> > Whoops Jeff, you didn't have your coffee yet:
>
> Whoops yourself. The following patch brings your example into line with
> the driver code. mpuout is a pointer to a structure not the structure
> itself as the malloc assignment clearly indicates.

Yep, the only thing left to resolve is whether Jeff had coffee or not. ;-)

-	if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(struct emu10k1_mpuout), GFP_KERNEL))
+	if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(*card->mpuout), GFP_KERNEL))

--
Daniel

  reply	other threads:[~2001-06-17 14:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-06-17  1:19 Newbie idiotic questions Bill Pringlemeir
2001-06-17  1:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-17 10:48   ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-17 12:27     ` rjd
2001-06-17 15:01       ` Daniel Phillips [this message]
2001-06-17 15:08         ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-17 15:38           ` David Flynn
2001-06-17 15:54             ` Jeff Garzik
2001-06-17 19:18               ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2001-06-17 20:08                 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-17 20:37                   ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-17 21:28                     ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-17 22:33                       ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-18  9:14                         ` Roman Zippel
2001-06-18  9:30                           ` Alexander Viro
2001-06-17 21:17               ` Bill Pringlemeir
2001-06-17  1:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
2001-06-17  3:01   ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-06-17  8:06 ` rjd

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