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From: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fs/ocfs2/dlm: Drop memory allocation cast
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:28:14PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
> 
> Drop cast on the result of kmalloc and similar functions.
> 
> The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows:
> (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)
> 
> // <smpl>
> @@
> type T;
> @@
> 
> - (T *)
>   (\(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\|kmem_cache_alloc\|kmem_cache_zalloc\|
>    kmem_cache_alloc_node\|kmalloc_node\|kzalloc_node\)(...))
> // </smpl>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>

This patch is now in the merge-window branch of ocfs2.git.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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