linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/17][trivial] scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptr returning alloc function return values

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Message-ID: <4D37E452.7030404@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:29:22 +0100
From:	Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>
To:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
Cc:	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, osst-users@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/17][trivial] scsi: Remove unnecessary casts of void
 ptr returning alloc function return values

On 01/19/2011 03:27 PM, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
>> it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
>> that happens implicitly.
>>
>> This patch removes such casts from drivers/scsi/
>>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>\
Acked-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@...e.de>

Cheers,

Hannes
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