[1/2] trivial: preferred form for passing a size of struct

Commit Message

anish May 17, 2011, 5:28 p.m. UTC

The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following:
         p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...);
  Please refer Documentation/Codingstyle chapter 14
 Signed-off-by: anish kumar<[e-mail]>

---
 drivers/video/amba-clcd.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c b/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
index 5fc983c..cb7ec86 100644
--- a/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
+++ b/drivers/video/amba-clcd.c
@@ -549,7 +549,7 @@  static int clcdfb_probe(struct amba_device *dev, const struct amba_id *id)
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	fb = kzalloc(sizeof(struct clcd_fb), GFP_KERNEL);
+	fb = kzalloc(sizeof(*fb), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!fb) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "CLCD: could not allocate new clcd_fb struct\n");
 		ret = -ENOMEM;