linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Drop cast

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 10:38:06 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@...il.com>
Cc:	Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@...rs.sourceforge.net>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, julia.lawall@...6.fr
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: roccat: Drop cast

On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 22:58 +0530, Himangi Saraogi wrote:
> This patch removes the cast on data of type void* as it is not needed.

Hi Himangi

The cast of a const void * to a void * was odd.

Maybe a mechanism to verify appropriateness of
loss of constness for any pointer might be useful.


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