netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Remove casts to same type

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Date:	Mon, 04 Jun 2012 21:54:29 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Remove casts to same type

On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 22:48 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
> > Adding casts of objects to the same type is unnecessary
> > and confusing for a human reader.
> > Remove them via coccinelle script.
> Can you also post the coccinelle script ?

Hi Jim.

I did that with each patch, but here it is again:

$ cat norecast.cocci
@@
type T;
T *p;
@@

-       (T *)p
+       p
$

> did you have to edit them any futher, or is it 100% script ?

Also from each patch:

I manually removed the conversions this script produces of
casts with __force, __iomem and __user.

Also, I did delete a few unnecessary parentheses left over
after the casts were removed.

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