linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 06/16] This removes unnecessary kmalloc casts and corrects a test for kmalloc failure.

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:17:48 +0200
From:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>
To:	jack@...keye.stone.uk.eu.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, trivial@...nel.org,
	Ronald Bultje <rbultje@...ald.bitfreak.net>
Subject: Re: [Patch 06/16] This removes unnecessary kmalloc casts and corrects a test for kmalloc failure.

Am Dienstag, 31. Juli 2007 schrieb jack@...keye.stone.uk.eu.org:
> --- a/drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c
> +++ b/drivers/media/video/zoran_driver.c
[...]
> -			mem =
> -			    (unsigned long) kmalloc(fh->jpg_buffers.
> -						    buffer_size,
> -						    GFP_KERNEL);
> +			mem = kmalloc(fh->jpg_buffers.buffer_size, GFP_KERNEL);
[...]

NAK. See the comments to the other patches. The cast is necessary.
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