linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH UPDATED 2.6.20-rc3] Remove all the unneeded k[mzc]alloc casts

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Date:	Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:10:19 +0100
From:	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@...tec.de>
To:	"Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH UPDATED 2.6.20-rc3] Remove all the unneeded k[mzc]alloc casts

Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> Hi all,
> This is a patch to remove the unneeded k[mzc]alloc casts in the whole
> 2.6.20-rc3 tree. I tried to put this patch in a patchset but I couldn't
> cause the modified files have nothing in common (except the unneeded casts
> ofcourse).
>
> This patch includes http://lkml.org/lkml/fancy/2007/1/5/12 and
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/5/6.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish
>
> diff --git a/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c
> b/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c index 41ee7f7..acb4e21 100644
> --- a/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c
> +++ b/arch/cris/arch-v32/mm/intmem.c
> @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ static void crisv32_intmem_init(void)
>  {
>  	static int initiated = 0;
>  	if (!initiated) {
> -		struct intmem_allocation* alloc =
> -		  (struct intmem_allocation*)kmalloc(sizeof *alloc, GFP_KERNEL);
> +		struct intmem_allocation* alloc = kmalloc(sizeof *alloc,
> +							  GFP_KERNEL);
sizeof(*alloc) (see Documentation/CodingStyle)

There are some more of this kind.

Eike

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