linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: dgap: remove useless cast on kzalloc()

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Date:	Thu, 06 Mar 2014 15:17:47 +0900
From:	Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
To:	lidza.louina@...il.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: dgap: remove useless cast on kzalloc()


coccinelle warning:
drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c:782:3-7: WARNING:
 casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (char *) is useless.
drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c:776:2-16: WARNING:
 casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (struct board_t *) is useless.

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
index cbce457..1adcd13 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
@@ -773,13 +773,13 @@ static int dgap_found_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, int id)
 
 	/* get the board structure and prep it */
 	brd = dgap_Board[dgap_NumBoards] =
-	(struct board_t *) kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL);
+		kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
 	/* make a temporary message buffer for the boot messages */
 	brd->msgbuf = brd->msgbuf_head =
-		(char *) kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 8192, GFP_KERNEL);
+		kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 8192, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!brd->msgbuf) {
 		kfree(brd);
 		return -ENOMEM;
-- 
1.7.4.4


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