From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] net: dsa: add new DSA switch driver for the SMSC-LAN9303 Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2017 06:35:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20170407.063553.580195979968658177.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20170407081502.30172-1-jbe@pengutronix.de> <20170407081502.30172-3-jbe@pengutronix.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, f.fainelli@gmail.com, kernel@pengutronix.de, andrew@lunn.ch, vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com To: jbe@pengutronix.de Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20170407081502.30172-3-jbe@pengutronix.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Juergen Borleis Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:15:00 +0200 > +static inline struct lan9303 *ds_to_lan9303(struct dsa_switch *ds) > +{ > + return (struct lan9303 *)ds->priv; > +} You never need an explicit cast from a void pointer to another kind of pointer. Please remove this. In fact, this therefore makes the helper kind of useless and you can just simply go: struct lan9303_priv *priv = ds->priv; everywhere.