Re: [PATCH 10/17][trivial] staging, bcm: Remove unnecessary castsof void ptr returning alloc function return values

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Nov 09 2010 - 19:46:46 EST


On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:09:51AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
> it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
> that happens implicitly.
>
> This patch removes such casts from drivers/staging/bcm/
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> CmHost.c | 2 +-
> InterfaceDld.c | 27 +++++++++++++--------------
> Misc.c | 12 +++++-------
> 3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c

This driver just got a major overhaul, and this patch doesn't apply
anymore.

Care to redo it against the next linux-next tree?

thanks,

greg k-h
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