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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Remove casting the return value which is a
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Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:41:03 -0700
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On Mon, 2013-09-09 at 14:26 +0900, Jingoo Han wrote:
> Casting the return value which is a void pointer is redundant.
> The conversion from void pointer to any other pointer type is
> guaranteed by the C programming language.

spatch (aka: Coccinelle) should be able to find a lot
of these with:

$ cat void.cocci 
@@
void *t;
type other;
@@

-	(other *)t
+	t