linux-kernel - [PATCH 08/30] mtd: Avoid a pointless kmalloc() return value cast in TQM8xxL mapping handling code

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Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2007 01:51:44 +0200
From:	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, Kirk Lee <kirk@....ee.ntu.edu.tw>,
	Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 08/30] mtd: Avoid a pointless kmalloc() return value cast in TQM8xxL mapping handling code

In drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c::init_tqm_mtd() it is pointless casting
the return value of kmalloc() since it returns void*.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com>
---
 drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c |    3 +--
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c
index 37e4ded..1d75ce4 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c
@@ -141,8 +141,7 @@ int __init init_tqm_mtd(void)
 			goto error_mem;
 		}
 
-		map_banks[idx]->name = (char *)kmalloc(16, GFP_KERNEL);
-
+		map_banks[idx]->name = kmalloc(16, GFP_KERNEL);
 		if (!map_banks[idx]->name) {
 			ret = -ENOMEM;
 			/* FIXME: What if some MTD devices were probed already? */
-- 
1.5.2.2

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