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Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> wrote: > > On Monday 12 September 2005 23:43, Pekka Enberg wrote: > > On 9/13/05, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >- cls = kmalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL); > > > >+ cls = kzalloc(sizeof(struct class), GFP_KERNEL); > > > > > > > > > > > maybe, the better way is to write `*cls' instead of `struct class', > > > better for further changes > > > > Please note that some maintainers don't like it. I at least could not > > sneak in patches like these to drivers/usb/ because I had changed > > sizeof. > > > > And given the fact that Greg maintains driver core it probably won't be > accepted here either :) > > FWIW I also prefer spelling out the structure I am allocating. > It hurts readability. Quick question: is this code correct? dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_device), GFP_KERNEL); you don't know. You have to go hunting down the declaration of `dev' to find out. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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