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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value  casts in zd1211 driver
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:19:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1188512393.6062.156.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490708301320o49d8e794vc5c37ffc938006f1@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 22:20 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Ok, I must admit I didn't check with sparse since it seemed pointless
> - we usually never cast void pointers to other pointer types,
> specifically because the C language nicely guarantees that the right
> thing will happen without the cast.  Sometimes we have to cast them to
> integer types, su sure we need the cast there.   But what on earth
> makes a "zd_addr_t *" so special that we have to explicitly cast a
> "void *" to that type?

http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=117113743902549&w=1


  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-30 22:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1554af80879a7ef2f78a4d654f23c248203500d9.1187912217.git.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2007-08-24  0:03 ` [PATCH 14/30] net: Kill some unneeded allocation return value casts in libertas Jesper Juhl
2007-08-24 15:50   ` Dan Williams
     [not found] ` <d551047daed1cb4d9de1eff956268a468c9837f6.1187912217.git.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2007-08-30 17:54   ` [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver Daniel Drake
2007-08-30 20:20     ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-30 22:19       ` Joe Perches [this message]
2007-08-30 22:30         ` [PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in zd_chip (was: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver) Jesper Juhl
2007-08-30 22:42           ` Randy Dunlap
2007-08-30 23:04             ` Jesper Juhl
2007-08-30 23:47       ` [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver Daniel Drake
2007-08-31  9:30       ` Herbert Xu

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