netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Remove casts to same type

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Message-Id: <20120604.114533.1720204611284591292.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:45:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	joe@...ches.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove casts to same type

From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Date: Sun,  3 Jun 2012 20:41:40 -0700

> Adding casts of objects to the same type is unnecessary
> and confusing for a human reader.
> 
> For example, this cast:
> 
> 	int y;
> 	int *p = (int *)&y;
> 
> I used the coccinelle script below to find and remove these
> unnecessary casts.  I manually removed the conversions this
> script produces of casts with __force and __user.
> 
> @@
> type T;
> T *p;
> @@
> 
> -	(T *)p
> +	p
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks Joe.
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