Re: [PATCH 07/17][trivial] net, wireless: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptr returning alloc function return values

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:09:13AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
> it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
> that happens implicitly.
> 
> This patch removes such casts from drivers/net/
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  zd_chip.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> index 87a95bc..dfcebed 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> @@ -117,8 +117,7 @@ int zd_ioread32v_locked(struct zd_chip *chip, u32 *values, const zd_addr_t *addr
>  
>  	/* Allocate a single memory block for values and addresses. */
>  	count16 = 2*count;
> -	a16 = (zd_addr_t *) kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)),
> -		                   GFP_KERNEL);
> +	a16 = kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!a16) {
>  		dev_dbg_f(zd_chip_dev(chip),
>  			  "error ENOMEM in allocation of a16\n");

kcalloc?

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