linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 03/10] Documentation: kunit: Clean up some string casts in examples

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Message-Id: <20210513193204.816681-3-davidgow@google.com>
Date:   Thu, 13 May 2021 12:31:57 -0700
From:   David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
To:     Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@...gle.com>,
        Daniel Latypov <dlatypov@...gle.com>,
        Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>, kunit-dev@...glegroups.com,
        linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 03/10] Documentation: kunit: Clean up some string casts in examples

As the type checking is no longer excessively strict, get rid of the
unsightly (char*) casts -- and comment discussing them -- from the KUnit
usage page.

Signed-off-by: David Gow <davidgow@...gle.com>
---
 Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
index 650f99590df5..756747417a19 100644
--- a/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
+++ b/Documentation/dev-tools/kunit/usage.rst
@@ -465,10 +465,9 @@ fictitious example for ``sha1sum(1)``
 
 .. code-block:: c
 
-	/* Note: the cast is to satisfy overly strict type-checking. */
 	#define TEST_SHA1(in, want) \
 		sha1sum(in, out); \
-		KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, want, "sha1sum(%s)", in);
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, want, "sha1sum(%s)", in);
 
 	char out[40];
 	TEST_SHA1("hello world",  "2aae6c35c94fcfb415dbe95f408b9ce91ee846ed");
@@ -507,7 +506,7 @@ In some cases, it can be helpful to write a *table-driven test* instead, e.g.
 	};
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(cases); ++i) {
 		sha1sum(cases[i].str, out);
-		KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, cases[i].sha1,
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, cases[i].sha1,
 		                      "sha1sum(%s)", cases[i].str);
 	}
 
@@ -568,7 +567,7 @@ Reusing the same ``cases`` array from above, we can write the test as a
 		struct sha1_test_case *test_param = (struct sha1_test_case *)(test->param_value);
 
 		sha1sum(test_param->str, out);
-		KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, (char *)out, test_param->sha1,
+		KUNIT_EXPECT_STREQ_MSG(test, out, test_param->sha1,
 				      "sha1sum(%s)", test_param->str);
 	}
 
-- 
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