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

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Wed Nov 10 00:45:43 UTC 2010


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 at chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  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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