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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Remove casts to same type
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 11:53:18 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 08:52:08 -0700

> 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.

I don't see any value beyond perhaps splitting it into
drivers/net/ethernet, drivers/net/wireless, and "rest".