Re: Newbie idiotic questions.
Daniel Phillips (phillips@bonn-fries.net)
Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:01:10 +0200
On Sunday 17 June 2001 14:27, rjd@xyzzy.clara.co.uk wrote:
> Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > > because then you would be allocating the size of a pointer, not the
> > > size of a structure
> >
> > Whoops Jeff, you didn't have your coffee yet:
>
> Whoops yourself. The following patch brings your example into line with
> the driver code. mpuout is a pointer to a structure not the structure
> itself as the malloc assignment clearly indicates.
Yep, the only thing left to resolve is whether Jeff had coffee or not. ;-)
- if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(struct emu10k1_mpuout), GFP_KERNEL))
+ if ((card->mpuout = kmalloc(sizeof(*card->mpuout), GFP_KERNEL))
--
Daniel
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