Re: [PATCH 1/1] fs/ufs/super.c: remove unnecessary casting

[Joe Perches]

On Sun, 2014-12-28 at 15:33 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 04:28:29PM +0100, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > Fix the following coccinelle warning:
> > fs/ufs/super.c:1418:7-28: WARNING: casting value returned by memory
> > allocation function to (struct ufs_inode_info *) is useless.
> 
> ... except that it makes allocations harder to grep for.

How does it do that?

> IOW, it's not
> obviously an improvement and should be up to maintainer of the code in
> question.

That's always true in any case.

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