Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:21:53 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/5] net/9p: Improve 19 size determinations |
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On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 02:00:06PM +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> > Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2017 09:36:20 +0200 > > Replace the specification of data structures by variable references > as the parameter for the operator "sizeof" to make the corresponding size > determination a bit safer according to the Linux coding style convention.
Garbage. This makes it so much harder to find where the objects of given type are created. It's _not_ safer and any patches of that sort around VFS will be shitcanned. What to do with net/9p patches is up to net/9p maintainers, but I would strongly recommend the same treatment.
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