Re: [PATCH 2/2] NET: Multiqueue network device support implementation.

[Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>]

Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> >@@ -3356,6 +3370,7 @@ void free_netdev(struct net_device *dev)
>> >     /* will free via device release */
>> >     put_device(&dev->dev);
>> > #else
>> >+    kfree((char *)dev->egress_subqueue);
>> >     kfree((char *)dev - dev->padded);
>> > #endif
>> > }
>> 
>> Ahem. Explain that cast.
> 
>        This can be removed if needed; however, I'm just copying what
> the other kfree()'s are doing in this function.  Any instance of a
> typecast that I introduced in these patches are just following what
> others have done in that section of the code.  So the cast is just for
> consistency in this particular area.  If you'd like me to remove it, I
> can do that.

The other cast is there for the subtraction, not the kfree...

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