This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Subject: usb: avoid redundant cast of kmalloc() return value in OTi-6858 driver
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is
usb-avoid-redundant-cast-of-kmalloc-return-value-in-oti-6858-driver.patch
This tree can be found at
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/
>From [email protected] Thu Aug 23 17:38:13 2007
From: Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:35:14 +0200
Subject: usb: avoid redundant cast of kmalloc() return value in OTi-6858 driver
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>, Jesper Juhl <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <e71841eb1d00e260fea44d94a4c8a0f950debcfd.1187912217.git.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Content-Disposition: inline
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]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c
@@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static struct pl2303_buf *pl2303_buf_all
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;
Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [email protected] are
bad/speakup-kconfig-fix.patch
usb/usb-clean-up-duplicate-includes-in-drivers-usb.patch
usb/usb-avoid-redundant-cast-of-kmalloc-return-value-in-oti-6858-driver.patch
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