Re: [PATCH 12/18] driver: scsi: remove cast for kmalloc/kzallocreturn value

[James Bottomley]

On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 13:25 +0800, Zhang Yanfei wrote:
> remove cast for kmalloc/kzalloc return value.

I've got to ask why?  Just because void * can be assigned to any pointer
doesn't mean we should religiously eliminate all casts of void *.  If
the driver writer believes there's value making sure of the pointer
type, I'm happy to keep the cast.

James


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