netdev - Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Remove casting the return value which is a void pointer

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Date:	Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:41:03 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Jingoo Han <jg1.han@...sung.com>
Cc:	"'John W. Linville'" <linville@...driver.com>,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	'David Miller' <davem@...emloft.net>,
	'Bing Zhao' <bzhao@...vell.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Remove casting the return value which is a
 void pointer

On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 14:26 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> Casting the return value which is a void pointer is redundant.
> The conversion from void pointer to any other pointer type is
> guaranteed by the C programming language.

spatch (aka: Coccinelle) should be able to find a lot
of these with:

$ cat void.cocci 
@@
void *t;
type other;
@@

-	(other *)t
+	t


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