On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 12:14:13AM +0000, Junichi Nomura wrote:
> Personally I have same opinion as yours. :)
>
> But according to Documentation/process/coding-style.rst, it seems
> "sizeof(*p)" is preferred style and the reason there makes some
> sense.
>
> Quote from coding-style.rst:
> > The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
> >
> > p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
> >
> > The alternative form where struct name is spelled out hurts readability
> and
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Yeah, right. Change is from 2005 (af4e5a218e18a). Pekka didn't know better
then. :-P
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