From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>,
Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH V2 4/4] zd1211rw: document need for kmalloc cast
Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 02:02:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1290938579.16349.19.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1290936606.3467.2.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
---
V2: Just document the need for the cast
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
index 87a95bc..dd0bb0c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
@@ -117,6 +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;
+ /* zd_addr_t is __nocast, so the kmalloc needs an explicit cast */
a16 = (zd_addr_t *) kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)),
GFP_KERNEL);
if (!a16) {
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-28 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-28 9:05 [PATCH 0/4] drivers/net: Remove unnecessary [kv][mcz]alloc casts Joe Perches
2010-11-28 9:05 ` [PATCH 4/4] zd1211rw: remove " Joe Perches
2010-11-28 9:12 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-28 9:20 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-28 9:30 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-28 9:50 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-28 10:02 ` Johannes Berg
2010-11-28 10:13 ` Joe Perches
2010-11-28 10:02 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-11-29 1:26 ` [PATCH 0/4] drivers/net: Remove " David Miller
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