Pekka J Enberg writes: [...] > + > +The kernel provides the following general purpose memory allocators: > +kmalloc(), kzalloc(), kcalloc(), and vmalloc(). Please refer to the API > +documentation for further information about them. > + > +The preferred form for passing a size of a struct is the following: > + > + p = kmalloc(sizeof(*p), ...); Parentheses around *p are superfluous. See > The C Programming Language, Second Edition > by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. Nikita. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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