Re: [PATCH] Cast removal

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:14:02 -0700
"Moore, Robert" <robert.moore@intel.com> wrote:

> If you're discussing this type of thing, I agree wholeheartedly:
> 
> static void acpi_processor_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void
> *data)  {
> -	struct acpi_processor *pr = (struct acpi_processor *)data;
> +	struct acpi_processor *pr = data;
> 

OK, thanks.  I would expect all compilers to be happy with that.  However a
bit of googling I did indicated that lint (or some flavour thereof)
complains about the missing cast.  Which is dumb of it.

> I find this one interesting, as we've put a number of them into the
> ACPICA core:
> 
> -	(void) kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
> +	kmem_cache_destroy(cache);
> 
> I believe that the point of the (void) is to prevent lint from
> squawking, and perhaps some picky ANSI-C compilers. What is the overall
> Linux policy on this?

policy = not;

But there's quite a lot of it in the tree.

Actually..  kmem_cache_destroy() returns void, so any checker which complains
about the missing cast needs a stern talking to.