[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH v2] iw_cxgb3: Support "iwarp-only" interfaces to avoid 4-tuple conflicts.

Evgeniy Polyakov johnpol at 2ka.mipt.ru
Mon Sep 17 09:17:07 PDT 2007


On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:09:06AM -0700, Sean Hefty (mshefty at ichips.intel.com) wrote:
> >>>+    addr = kmalloc(sizeof *addr, GFP_KERNEL);
> >>
> >>As a small nitpick: this wants to be sizeof(struct in_ifaddr)
> 
> See chapter 14 of CodingStyle document.  kmalloc(sizeof *addr... is correct.

Come on, do not start a flame war about how parameters into kmalloc
should be provided - there are much more serious issues unresolved yes. It
does help grepping the code, but if you feel that this is a serious threat,
then use your preferred way.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov



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