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Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:19:53 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...il.com> Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@...too.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...ne-taler.de>, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:20 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Ok, I must admit I didn't check with sparse since it seemed pointless > - we usually never cast void pointers to other pointer types, > specifically because the C language nicely guarantees that the right > thing will happen without the cast. Sometimes we have to cast them to > integer types, su sure we need the cast there. But what on earth > makes a "zd_addr_t *" so special that we have to explicitly cast a > "void *" to that type? http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117113743902549&w=1 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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