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[07/17,trivial] net, wireless: Remove unnecessary casts of void ptr returning alloc function return values

Message ID alpine.LNX.2.00.1011082330390.23697@swampdragon.chaosbits.net
State Not Applicable, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Commit Message

Jesper Juhl Nov. 8, 2010, 11:09 p.m. UTC
Hi,

The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
that happens implicitly.

This patch removes such casts from drivers/net/


Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
---
 zd_chip.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

Comments

John W. Linville Nov. 9, 2010, 1:23 a.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Nov 09, 2010 at 12:09:13AM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
> it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
> that happens implicitly.
> 
> This patch removes such casts from drivers/net/
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
> ---
>  zd_chip.c |    3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> index 87a95bc..dfcebed 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
> @@ -117,8 +117,7 @@ int zd_ioread32v_locked(struct zd_chip *chip, u32 *values, const zd_addr_t *addr
>  
>  	/* Allocate a single memory block for values and addresses. */
>  	count16 = 2*count;
> -	a16 = (zd_addr_t *) kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)),
> -		                   GFP_KERNEL);
> +	a16 = kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!a16) {
>  		dev_dbg_f(zd_chip_dev(chip),
>  			  "error ENOMEM in allocation of a16\n");

kcalloc?
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diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
index 87a95bc..dfcebed 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_chip.c
@@ -117,8 +117,7 @@  int zd_ioread32v_locked(struct zd_chip *chip, u32 *values, const zd_addr_t *addr
 
 	/* Allocate a single memory block for values and addresses. */
 	count16 = 2*count;
-	a16 = (zd_addr_t *) kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)),
-		                   GFP_KERNEL);
+	a16 = kmalloc(count16 * (sizeof(zd_addr_t) + sizeof(u16)), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!a16) {
 		dev_dbg_f(zd_chip_dev(chip),
 			  "error ENOMEM in allocation of a16\n");