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Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 11:40:31 -0700
From: "Nish Aravamudan" <nish.aravamudan@...il.com>
To: jschopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>
Cc: "Dave Jones" <davej@...hat.com>, apw@...dowen.org,
rdunlap@...otime.net, "Linux Kernel" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Make checkpatch warn about pointless casting of kalloc returns.
On 8/8/07, jschopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > > + WARN("No need to cast return value.\n");
> > >
> > > Could the warning be more descriptive? This describes what, but it should also describe
> > > why; after all if somebody made this error they may not know they why.
> >
> > I'm open to suggestions..
>
> How about
>
> WARN("No need to cast return value, it is unnecessary and can hide real bugs. See
> http://c-faq.com/malloc/mallocnocast.html for more details\n");
That's a long line. Can it be split into two? Otherwise seems sane.
Thanks,
Nish
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