Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pcisubsystem.

[David Miller]

From: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:53:28 +0200

> Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb jack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
> > --- a/drivers/pci/rom.c
> > +++ b/drivers/pci/rom.c
> > @@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ void __iomem *pci_map_rom_copy(struct pc
> >  			  IORESOURCE_ROM_BIOS_COPY))
> >  		return rom;
> > 
> > -	res->start = (unsigned long)kmalloc(*size, GFP_KERNEL);
> > +	res->start = kmalloc(*size, GFP_KERNEL);
> 
> This looks wrong. void * doesnt need a cast to a pointer, but res->start is an 
> integer u32 type, and therefore we need a cast, no?

Similar issue with the arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c change.

If the cast is being done to an integer type you can't
remove it.
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