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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] qla4xxx: remove some bogus casts
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:45:45 -0700
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To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>, QLogic-Storage-Upstream@qlogic.com, Vikas Chaudhary <vikas.chaudhary@qlogic.com>
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On 08/17/2015 07:36 AM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> These casts are wrong and unnecessary.  They annoy static checkers
> because they imply we are planning to write sizeof(long) bytes to a
> sizeof(u32) buffer which would corrupt memory.

Hello Dan,

Can you verify whether that patch is still needed after having applied 
the patch series I posted in July (and that was acknowledged by QLogic): 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.scsi/103135 ?

Thanks,

Bart.