From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760820Ab3JPQCN (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:02:13 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f170.google.com ([209.85.128.170]:45076 "EHLO mail-ve0-f170.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756202Ab3JPQCM (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:02:12 -0400 From: "Geyslan G. Bem" To: lidza.louina@gmail.com Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-br@googlegroups.com, "Geyslan G. Bem" Subject: [PATCH] drivers: staging: dgnc: Remove useless casting in dgnc_driver.c Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 12:57:35 -0300 Message-Id: <1381939056-27898-1-git-send-email-geyslan@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Casting (void *) value returned by kzalloc is useless as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14. Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem --- drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 6 ++---- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c index 71d2b83..7f31ab5 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c @@ -498,16 +498,14 @@ static int dgnc_found_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, int id) unsigned long flags; /* get the board structure and prep it */ - brd = dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards] = - (struct board_t *) kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL); + brd = dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL); if (!brd) { APR(("memory allocation for board structure failed\n")); return(-ENOMEM); } /* make a temporary message buffer for the boot messages */ - brd->msgbuf = brd->msgbuf_head = - (char *) kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 8192, GFP_KERNEL); + brd->msgbuf = brd->msgbuf_head = kzalloc(sizeof(char) * 8192, GFP_KERNEL); if (!brd->msgbuf) { kfree(brd); APR(("memory allocation for board msgbuf failed\n")); -- 1.8.4