linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] staging: wfx: fix warnings of no space is necessary

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1910191603520.6740@ninjahub.org>
Date:   Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:09:03 +0100 (BST)
From:   Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@...il.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
cc:     Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@...il.com>,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/5] staging: wfx: fix warnings of no space is
 necessary



On Sat, 19 Oct 2019, Dan Carpenter wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 19, 2019 at 03:07:15PM +0100, Jules Irenge wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/bh.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/bh.c
> > index 3355183fc86c..573216b08042 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/wfx/bh.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/bh.c
> > @@ -69,13 +69,13 @@ static int rx_helper(struct wfx_dev *wdev, size_t read_len, int *is_cnf)
> >  	if (wfx_data_read(wdev, skb->data, alloc_len))
> >  		goto err;
> >  
> > -	piggyback = le16_to_cpup((u16 *) (skb->data + alloc_len - 2));
> > +	piggyback = le16_to_cpup((u16 *)(skb->data + alloc_len - 2));
> >  	_trace_piggyback(piggyback, false);
> >  
> > -	hif = (struct hif_msg *) skb->data;
> > +	hif = (struct hif_msg *)skb->data;
> >  	WARN(hif->encrypted & 0x1, "unsupported encryption type");
> >  	if (hif->encrypted == 0x2) {
> > -		if (wfx_sl_decode(wdev, (void *) hif)) {
> > +		if (wfx_sl_decode(wdev, (void *)hif)) {
> 
> In the future you may want to go through and remove the (void *) casts.
> It's not required here.
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wfx/bus_spi.c b/drivers/staging/wfx/bus_spi.c
> > index f65f7d75e731..effd07957753 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/wfx/bus_spi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wfx/bus_spi.c
> > @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ static int wfx_spi_copy_to_io(void *priv, unsigned int addr,
> >  	struct wfx_spi_priv *bus = priv;
> >  	u16 regaddr = (addr << 12) | (count / 2);
> >  	// FIXME: use a bounce buffer
> > -	u16 *src16 = (void *) src;
> > +	u16 *src16 = (void *)src;
> 
> Here we are just getting rid of the constness.  Apparently we are doing
> that so we can modify it without GCC pointing out the bug!!  I don't
> know the code but this seems very wrong.
> 
Checkpatch was complaining about  space between type cast and the 
variable. I just get rid of the space. Well I don't know whether this was 
false positive one.

Thanks for the feedback. I will update the patch.

Regards,
Jules