Re: [patch 15/17] s390: convert /proc/cio_ignore.

Cornelia Huck <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Unneeded (and undesirable) cast of void*.
> 
>  Some people seem to prefer explicit casts to make the
>  type more clear. Is there any concensus on this? (I don't care
>  either way ;))

It's better to omit the casts because

a) they're ugly and 

b) If someone changes the type of the RHS from void* to anything else,
   we'll get a warning, probably leading us to a bug.  The cast would have
   prevented that warning.  IOW, omitting the cast is more type-safe.
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