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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@gmail.com>,
	kbuild-all@01.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH staging] dgnc: remove useless cast on kzalloc()
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 09:27:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130926162757.GA10468@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130926021223.GB10435@localhost>

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:12:23AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c:510:3-7: WARNING: casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (char *) is useless.
> drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c:502:2-19: WARNING: casting value returned by k[cmz]alloc to (struct dgnc_board *) is useless.
> 
>  Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless
>  as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14.
> 
> Generated by: coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci
> 
> CC: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@gmail.com>
> CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c |    4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

As Jingoo sent this a few minutes before you did, and also cleaned up
another cast that you missed, I've added your signed-off-by to his
patch, as they were the same (although yours didn't apply and his
did...)

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-26 16:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-26  2:12 [PATCH staging] dgnc: remove useless cast on kzalloc() Fengguang Wu
2013-09-26 16:27 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-09-27  5:09   ` Fengguang Wu

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