linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: wan: Remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

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Message-ID: <27537aa7-8a2d-8b9f-4a74-4b7dd2463cf3@nfschina.com>
Date:   Mon, 10 Jul 2023 15:47:44 +0800
From:   yunchuan <yunchuan@...china.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Cc:     qiang.zhao@....com, davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com,
        kuba@...nel.org, pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 01/10] net: wan: Remove unnecessary (void*)
 conversions

On 2023/7/10 15:29, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 10, 2023 at 02:39:33PM +0800, Su Hui wrote:
>> From: wuych <yunchuan@...china.com>
>          ^^^^^
> This doesn't look like a real name.

Hi, Dan,

My full name is wuyunchan， but that is too long.
So I use the wuych as simplification.
I will change it to my full name, thanks for your adivce!
>
>> Pointer variables of void * type do not require type cast.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: wuych <yunchuan@...china.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c | 6 +++---
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
>> index 47c2ad7a3e42..73c73d8f4bb2 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/wan/fsl_ucc_hdlc.c
>> @@ -350,11 +350,11 @@ static int uhdlc_init(struct ucc_hdlc_private *priv)
>>   static netdev_tx_t ucc_hdlc_tx(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
>>   {
>>   	hdlc_device *hdlc = dev_to_hdlc(dev);
>> -	struct ucc_hdlc_private *priv = (struct ucc_hdlc_private *)hdlc->priv;
>> -	struct qe_bd *bd;
>> -	u16 bd_status;
>> +	struct ucc_hdlc_private *priv = hdlc->priv;
>>   	unsigned long flags;
>>   	__be16 *proto_head;
>> +	struct qe_bd *bd;
>> +	u16 bd_status;
> Don't move the other variables around.  That's unrelated to the cast.
> (Same applies to all the other patches).

I want to move the declarations to be reverse xmas tree.
Maybe moving them is more better?

wuych

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>