[PATCH v2 03/10] Documentation: kunit: Clean up some string casts in examples

From: David Gow
Date: Thu May 13 2021 - 15:36:11 EST


As the type checking is no longer excessively strict, get rid of the
unsightly (char*) casts -- and comment discussing them -- from the KUnit
usage page.

Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 7 +++----
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index 650f99590df5..756747417a19 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -465,10 +465,9 @@ fictitious example for ``sha1sum(1)``

.. code-block:: c

- /* Note: the cast is to satisfy overly strict type-checking. */
#define TEST_SHA1(in, want) \
sha1sum(in, out); \
- KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, want, "sha1sum(%s)", in);
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, want, "sha1sum(%s)", in);

char out[40];
TEST_SHA1("hello world", "2aae6c35c94fcfb415dbe95f408b9ce91ee846ed");
@@ -507,7 +506,7 @@ In some cases, it can be helpful to write a *table-driven test* instead, e.g.
};
for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cases); ++i) {
sha1sum(cases[i].str, out);
- KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, cases[i].sha1,
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, cases[i].sha1,
"sha1sum(%s)", cases[i].str);
}

@@ -568,7 +567,7 @@ Reusing the same ``cases`` array from above, we can write the test as a
struct sha1_test_case *test_param = (struct sha1_test_case *)(test->param_value);

sha1sum(test_param->str, out);
- KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, test_param->sha1,
+ KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, test_param->sha1,
"sha1sum(%s)", test_param->str);
}

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