From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:46:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276069584.1556.27.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1276068001_13533@mail4.comsite.net>
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 02:20 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Mon Jun 07 2010 at around 23:53:18 EST, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Trivial cleanups
> The reason they casts are present is to guard against someone changing
> the type of p at the top of the function and not changing the type at
> the kmalloc.
That'd be true for most all of the kernel mallocs.
> I know some maintainers have already taken some of
> the series the last time you posted; could you please augment the
> CC list.
I did not send to trivial any of kmalloc cast removal patches that
were acked. The patches in this series were not acked, so I think
no CC list needs augmentation.
Original: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/31/471
Newest: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/7/428
cheers, Joe
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2010-06-09 7:20 ` [PATCH 00/12] treewide: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts Milton Miller
2010-06-09 7:46 ` Joe Perches [this message]
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