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Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 09:43:51 +0300
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging/iio: Use correct argument for sizeof
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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:14:02PM +0100, Peter Huewe wrote:
> found with coccicheck
> sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of
> the pointer
> 

The original code is correct, in this case.  We're storing an array
of pointers and the last element in the array is a NULL.

> The semantic patch that makes this output is available
> in scripts/coccinelle/misc/noderef.cocci.
> 
> More information about semantic patching is available at
> http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/

Can you remove those two boiler plate lines?  We all have google.

regards,
dan carpenter