[PATCH v4 4/6] staging: rtl8192e: Pass a pointer as an argument to sizeof() instead of struct

From: sunil . m
Date: Thu Mar 16 2017 - 18:23:05 EST


From: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Replaced sizeof(struct foo) into sizeof(*ptr), found by checkpatch.pl

Signed-off-by: Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Changes for v4:

- Dropped two patches from the series, as they were not adding significant value
suggested by Dan Carpenter.
staging: rtl8192e: Fix coding style, this was fixing line over 80 characters.
staging: rtl8192e: Fix unbalanced braces
- Resending the whole series as requested by Greg K-H
- Patches were tested and built on next-20170310 and staging-testing

Changes for v3:

- Split earlier patches into multiple commits for easy review
as suggested by Greg K-H
- Modified description for better readability
- Rebased on top of next-20170310
- Patches were tested and built on next-20170310 and staging-testing
as suggested by Greg K-H, no errors reported

Changes for v2:

- new patch addition to the series
- Rebased on top of next-20170306
---
drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
index 4f4cd07..999af05 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c
@@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ static void _rtl92e_init_priv_variable(struct net_device *dev)

priv->card_type = PCI;

- priv->pFirmware = vzalloc(sizeof(struct rt_firmware));
+ priv->pFirmware = vzalloc(sizeof(*priv->pFirmware));
if (!priv->pFirmware)
return;

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