Re: [patch 1/2] trivial: amba-clcd.c preferred form of passing size of structure

[Paul Mundt]

On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:37:06PM +0530, anish wrote:
> 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 <anish198519851985@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
That's pretty subjective, and ultimately depends on the author. I
personally prefer to have it written out, but then I don't randomly
change my structure types around either, so the "bug" alluded to isn't
really an issue. I'm not sure I buy the impaired readability argument,
either..
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