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Subject: Re: [PATCH] iio: dac: ad5504: Remove unnecessary cast on void pointer
To: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>, lars@metafoo.de
References: <20170401141153.GA26918@singhal-Inspiron-5558>
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From: Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
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On 01/04/17 15:11, simran singhal wrote:
> The following Coccinelle script was used to detect this:
> @r@
> expression x;
> void* e;
> type T;
> identifier f;
> @@
> (
>   *((T *)e)
> |
>   ((T *)x)[...]
> |
>   ((T*)x)->f
> |
> - (T*)
>   e
> )
> 
> Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhalsimran0@gmail.com>
It could be argued for this one that it is acting as documentation
as it might not be obvious without looking up the definition of
the iio_get_time_ns function that it takes a struct iio_dev.

However, on balance I think that this case is simple enough that
it should be fine as you have it.

Applied.
> ---
>  drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c b/drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c
> index 22a027d..712d86b 100644
> --- a/drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c
> +++ b/drivers/iio/dac/ad5504.c
> @@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ static irqreturn_t ad5504_event_handler(int irq, void *private)
>  					    0,
>  					    IIO_EV_TYPE_THRESH,
>  					    IIO_EV_DIR_RISING),
> -		       iio_get_time_ns((struct iio_dev *)private));
> +		       iio_get_time_ns(private));
>  
>  	return IRQ_HANDLED;
>  }
>