[PATCH 27/30] usb: avoid redundant cast of kmalloc() return value in OTi-6858 driver

In drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c::pl2303_buf_alloc() the return value
of kmalloc() is being cast to "struct pl2303_buf *", but that need
not be done here since kmalloc() returns "void *".

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c b/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c
index d7db71e..fc5e808 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c
@@ -1161,7 +1161,7 @@ static struct pl2303_buf *pl2303_buf_alloc(unsigned int size)
 	if (size == 0)
 		return NULL;
 
-	pb = (struct pl2303_buf *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct pl2303_buf), GFP_KERNEL);
+	pb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pl2303_buf), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (pb == NULL)
 		return NULL;
 
-- 
1.5.2.2

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