Re: [announce] HVCS for inclusion in 2.6 tree

From: Ryan Arnold
Date: Mon Jul 26 2004 - 14:04:37 EST


On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 20:57, Andrew Morton wrote:
> A little stylistic thing:
>
> > + struct hvcs_struct *hvcsd = (struct hvcs_struct *)tty->driver_data;
> > + struct hvcs_struct *hvcsd = (struct hvcs_struct *)tty->driver_data;
> > + struct hvcs_struct *hvcsd = (struct hvcs_struct *)dev_instance;
>
> It's not necessary to add a typecast when assigning to and from a void*.
> In fact, it's harmful: if someone were to later change, say,
> tty->driver_data to a `struct foo *', your typecast will suppress the
> warning which we would very much like to receive.

Easy enough to fix. Thanks, I'll take care of it.

Ryan S. Arnold
IBM Linux Technology Center

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