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

From: Jesper Juhl
Date: Wed Nov 10 2010 - 03:24:15 EST


On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Greg KH wrote:

> 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?
>

Sure thing. I'll see if I can find the time to do that tonight when I get
home from work.

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