On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 23:42 +0200, Thomas Meyer wrote: > sizeof when applied to a pointer typed expression gives the size of the > pointer.
Hi Thomas, thanks for doing the series... > diff -u -p a/arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c > b/arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/network.c [] > @@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ static int __init iss_net_setup(char *st > return 1; > } > > - if ((new = alloc_bootmem(sizeof new)) == NULL) { > + if ((new = alloc_bootmem(sizeof *new)) == NULL) { sizeof(*new) Please run coccinelle generated patches through checkpatch (and the compiler of course) before submitting them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/