[lvc-project] [PATCH] wifi: brcmfmac: Fix allocation size

[Kalle Valo]

"Alexey V. Vissarionov" <gremlin at altlinux.org> writes:

> On 2023-01-17 13:05:24 +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
>
>  >> - buf_size += (max_idx + 1) * sizeof(pkt);
>  >> + buf_size += (max_idx + 1) * sizeof(struct sk_buff);
>  > Wouldn't sizeof(*pkt) be better?
>
> Usually sizeof(type) produces less errors than sizeof(var)...

This matter of taste really but FWIW I prefer sizeof(var) as then the
type can't be different by accident. And the coding style says something
similar, although that's related to memory allocation:

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/coding-style.html#allocating-memory

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