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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove casts to same type
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:45:33 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Sun,  3 Jun 2012 20:41:40 -0700

> Adding casts of objects to the same type is unnecessary
> and confusing for a human reader.
> 
> For example, this cast:
> 
> 	int y;
> 	int *p = (int *)&y;
> 
> 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
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Applied to net-next, thanks Joe.