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Date: Sun, 3 May 2026 11:48:12 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ajanth Badiger <badigerajanth1301@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: gpib: gpio: use sizeof(*ptr) in kzalloc
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On Sun, May 03, 2026 at 03:05:58PM +0530, Ajanth Badiger wrote:
> Replace sizeof(struct bb_priv) with sizeof(*board->private_data)
> to follow kernel coding style and improve maintainability.
> 
> checkpatch.pl also reports that LINVAL macro should be enclosed
> in parentheses. However, LINVAL intentionally expands to a
> comma-separated list of arguments matching the LINFMT format
> string used in dbg_printk() calls.
> 
> Wrapping it in parentheses would change semantics due to the
> comma operator, causing only the last expression to be passed.
> 
> Therefore, no change is made to LINVAL.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ajanth Badiger <badigerajanth1301@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/gpib/gpio/gpib_bitbang.c | 2 +-

This file is not in the tree, what version did you make this against?
Please always use linux-next for development work.

thanks,

greg k-h