linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/25] r852: remove casts from void*

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Message-ID: <4C29ED91.2010309@bfs.de>
Date:	Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:56:49 +0200
From:	walter harms <wharms@....de>
To:	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon@...il.com>,
	Kernel Janitors <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/25] r852: remove casts from void*



Dan Carpenter schrieb:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 02:14:57PM +0400, Kulikov Vasiliy wrote:
>> Remove unnesessary casts from void*.
>>
> 
> 1) The subjects are not helpful.  This one should say something about
> "mtd" but it doesn't.
> 2) These haven't been run through checkpatch.pl.  In fact, I can't be 
> certain anyone looked at these patches when I see things like:
> 
> -    if((( lp = (struct wl_private *)dev->priv ) != NULL ) &&
> -          !( lp->flags & WVLAN2_UIL_BUSY )) {
> +    if((( lp = dev->priv ) != NULL ) &&
> +       !( lp->flags & WVLAN2_UIL_BUSY )) {
> 
> On the recieving end, someone has to review every patch that gets merged.
> 


same problem in drivers/scsi/sg.c but that would requiere a additional patch.

re,
 wh

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