Re: [PATCH] treewide: Use 'sizeof(x)' instead of 'sizeof x'

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2016-02-02 at 12:28 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > If anyone feels strongly about accepting such patches, then the right solution 
> > is to create a Coccinelle semantic patch to run over the whole kernel and get 
> > over with the churn once and for all.
> 
> So applying a semantic patch like this to all .c files:
> 
>   @@ expression E; @@
>   -sizeof E
>   +sizeof(E)
>   @@ expression E2; @@
>   -sizeof((E2))
>   +sizeof(E2)
> 
> Produces the single patch below for the whole kernel - instead of generating a 
> churn of 1,000+ patches ...

If this isn't a joke, a nicer way to submit this is
by subsystem and not as a single huge patch.

This allows subsystem maintainers to reduce patch
contention as this patch already doesn't apply
to -next.