linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers : Remove unnecessary void pointer conversions

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Date:	Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:49:05 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Bhaskar Jupudi <njupudi@...c.edu>, davem@...emloft.net,
	igal.liberman@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers : Remove unnecessary void pointer conversions

On Sat, 2016-03-26 at 20:42 -0700, Bhaskar Jupudi wrote:
> Explicit void pointer conversion is unnecessary
> because the conversions to and from a void pointer
> are always implicit in 'C'. Changed two instances 
> of such conversions.

Your patch subject is incorrect, this is for fman
not all of drivers/

If you do one file, you should do them all.

$ git grep -E "\*\s*\)\s*of_get_property" drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman.c:     u32_prop = (const u32 *)of_get_property(fm_node, "cell-index", &lenp);
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman.c:     u32_prop = (const u32 *)of_get_property(fm_node,
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c:        u32_prop = (const u32 *)of_get_property(port_node, "cell-index", &lenp);
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c:                u32_prop = (const u32 *)of_get_property(port_node,
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman_port.c:                u32_prop = (const u32 *)of_get_property(port_node,
drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/mac.c:      char_prop = (const char *)of_get_property(mac_node,

>  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/fman/fman.c | 4 ++--