[PATCH 01/12] staging: dgnc: removes casting when using kzalloc

Lidza Louina lidza.louina at gmail.com
Sat Aug 31 22:19:09 UTC 2013


This patch removes casting that is used when kzalloc
is called. Casting isn't needed because kzalloc
returns a void pointer.

Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
index f8c1e22..1e76f0c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
@@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static int dgnc_found_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, int id)
 
 	/* get the board structure and prep it */
 	brd = dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards] =
-	(struct board_t *) kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+	kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd) {
 		APR(("memory allocation for board structure failed\n"));
 		return(-ENOMEM);
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static int dgnc_found_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, int id)
 
 	/* make a temporary message buffer for the boot messages */
 	brd->msgbuf = brd->msgbuf_head =
-		(char *) kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 8192, GFP_KERNEL);
+		kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 8192, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd->msgbuf) {
 		kfree(brd);
 		APR(("memory allocation for board msgbuf failed\n"));
-- 
1.8.1.2



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