linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() cast

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Message-ID: <20240702073504.GA29323@lst.de>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 09:35:04 +0200
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Thorsten Blum <thorsten.blum@...lux.com>, jack@...e.cz,
	surenb@...gle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma-buf: Remove unnecessary kmalloc() cast

On Tue, Jul 02, 2024 at 12:33:57AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Dang, yes, that was a regrettable change.  But hardly the end of the
> world.  I do think each such alteration should have included a comment
> to prevent people from going and cleaning them up.

.. or we should have never merged that utter mess ..