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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/4] char/tpm: Improve a size determination in nine functions
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 02:03:02PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-10-16 at 19:33 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 18:28:17 +0200
> >
> > Replace the specification of data structures by pointer dereferences
> > as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding
> > size
> > determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style
> > convention.
>
>
> This patch does one style in favor of the other.
>
> At the end it's Jarkko's call, though I would NAK this as I think some
> one already told this to you for some other similar patch(es).
>
>
> I even would suggest to stop doing this noisy stuff, which keeps people
> busy for nothing.

I favor using "sizeof(*foo)" for pointers but as a part of a commit where
something useful is done to the corresponding line of code.

So, I would say it's a NAK.

/Jarkko

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