Where to put the star in a C pointer declaration?

Which of the examples below are preferable?

char* name;
char *name;

As an inexperienced C programmer, the first example made more sense to me. The * signifies that this is a pointer. A pointer to a char. I saw it as part of the type.

But most C code that I have seen seems to prefer the second example. So does the linux kernel coding style:

When declaring pointer data or a function that returns a pointer type, the preferred use of * is adjacent to the data name or function name and not adjacent to the type name. Examples:

char *linux_banner;
unsigned long long memparse(char *ptr, char **retptr);
char *match_strdup(substring_t *s);

I have found an example that changes my opinion:

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    char* a, b;
    printf("sizeof(a)     = %d\n", sizeof(a));
    printf("sizeof(char*) = %d\n", sizeof(char*));
    printf("sizeof(b)     = %d\n", sizeof(b));
    printf("sizeof(char)  = %d\n", sizeof(char));
    return 0;
}

On my machine, it prints this:

sizeof(a)     = 8
sizeof(char*) = 8
sizeof(b)     = 1
sizeof(char)  = 1

With my previously preferred syntax, you would think that b is a pointer to a char. Indeed, I also thought that it was in this example. But apparently, that is not how C parses

char* a, b;

In order for both a and b to be pointers, you have to write

char *a, *b;

And now I'm convinced that it is better to put the star adjacent to the variable name. I'm not sure that I can make the same argument about putting the star adjacant to function names that return pointers. However, it makes sense to use the same convention in both cases.

I will go over my code and move all stars.