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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove casts to same type
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:52:08 -0700
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On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 11:45 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
> > Adding casts of objects to the same type is unnecessary
> > and confusing for a human reader.
[]
> > I used the coccinelle script below to find and remove these
> > unnecessary casts.  I manually removed the conversions this
> > script produces of casts with __force and __user.
> > 
> > @@
> > type T;
> > T *p;
> > @@
> > 
> > -	(T *)p
> > +	p
> Applied to net-next, thanks Joe.

Do you want the same thing for drivers/net?

It's pretty big and might be better broken into
commits by maintainer/directory.