Re: [PATCH] CodingStyle: delete "kmalloc(sizeof(*var))" as preferred allocation form

[Joe Perches]

On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 13:18 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> Proper fix is to introduce typed allocation macros with the following
> signatures:
> 
> T* lmalloc(T, gfp);
[]
>     struct foo *x;
>     x = lmalloc(struct foo, GFP_KERNEL);

Then code would be written

        x = lmalloc(typeof(*x), GFP_KERNEL);