Re: [PATCH 14/30] net: Kill some unneeded allocation return value casts in libertas

On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 02:03 +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> kmalloc() and friends return void*, no need to cast it.

Applied to libertas-2.6 'for-linville' branch, thanks.

Dan

> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
> ---
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c |    3 +--
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> index 715cbda..6ade63e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/debugfs.c
> @@ -1839,7 +1839,7 @@ static ssize_t wlan_debugfs_write(struct file *f, const char __user *buf,
>  	char *p2;
>  	struct debug_data *d = (struct debug_data *)f->private_data;
>  
> -	pdata = (char *)kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	pdata = kmalloc(cnt, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (pdata == NULL)
>  		return 0;
>  
> diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c
> index 96f1974..7dad493 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/libertas/ethtool.c
> @@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ static int libertas_ethtool_get_eeprom(struct net_device *dev,
>  
>  //      mutex_lock(&priv->mutex);
>  
> -	adapter->prdeeprom =
> -		    (char *)kmalloc(eeprom->len+sizeof(regctrl), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	adapter->prdeeprom = kmalloc(eeprom->len+sizeof(regctrl), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!adapter->prdeeprom)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
>  	memcpy(adapter->prdeeprom, &regctrl, sizeof(regctrl));

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