linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from void *

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Date:   Tue, 15 May 2018 09:38:56 +0200
From:   "'gregkh@...uxfoundation.org'" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "'driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org'" 
        <driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Removed an unnecessary cast from
 void *

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 12:25:01AM +0000, Dexuan Cui wrote:
> 
> In C, we don't need such a cast.
> 
> Fixes: ae20b254306a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: enable VMBus protocol version 5.0")
> Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> ---
> 
> Thanks Stephen Hemminger for pointing this out!
> 
> So far, ae20b254306a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: enable VMBus protocol version 5.0") only
> appears in the char-misc tree's char-misc-testing and char-misc-next branches. If 
> possible, please merge both patches into one.

I can not rebase/merge patches in public branches, sorry, so I'll just
apply this one.

thanks,

greg k-h