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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] fs/ufs/super.c: remove unnecessary casting
Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2014 08:45:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1419785144.20894.10.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141228153311.GI22149@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Sun, 2014-12-28 at 15:33 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 04:28:29PM +0100, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > Fix the following coccinelle warning:
> > fs/ufs/super.c:1418:7-28: WARNING: casting value returned by memory
> > allocation function to (struct ufs_inode_info *) is useless.
> 
> ... except that it makes allocations harder to grep for.

How does it do that?

> IOW, it's not
> obviously an improvement and should be up to maintainer of the code in
> question.

That's always true in any case.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-28 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-28 15:28 [PATCH 1/1] fs/ufs/super.c: remove unnecessary casting Fabian Frederick
2014-12-28 15:33 ` Al Viro
2014-12-28 16:45   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-12-28 18:21     ` Al Viro
2014-12-31  8:46       ` Fabian Frederick
2014-12-28 16:54 ` Joe Perches

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