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Message-ID: <1321569820.1624.248.camel@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:43:40 +0100
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] ks8*/ksz8*: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is
 useless

The semantic patch that makes this change is available
in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
---

diff -u -p a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c 2011-11-07 19:37:59.170122280 +0100
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c 2011-11-08 09:00:03.544702580 +0100
@@ -1500,8 +1500,7 @@ static int ks_hw_init(struct ks_net *ks)
 	ks->all_mcast = 0;
 	ks->mcast_lst_size = 0;
 
-	ks->frame_head_info = (struct type_frame_head *) \
-		kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
+	ks->frame_head_info = kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ks->frame_head_info) {
 		pr_err("Error: Fail to allocate frame memory\n");
 		return false;
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