Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

From: Ahmed S. Darwish
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 05:06:43 EST


On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:10:01AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/char/tty_io.c
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> if (!*ltp_loc) {
> - ltp = (struct ktermios *) kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + ltp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), GFP_KERNEL);
> ^^^^^^^
> if (!ltp)
> goto free_mem_out;
> memset(ltp, 0, sizeof(struct ktermios));
> ^^^^^^
> kzalloc
>
> if (!*o_ltp_loc) {
> - o_ltp = (struct ktermios *)
> - kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), GFP_KERNEL);
> + o_ltp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), GFP_KERNEL);
> ^^^^^^^
> if (!o_ltp)
> goto free_mem_out;
> memset(o_ltp, 0, sizeof(struct ktermios));
> ^^^^^^
> kzalloc

Currently I'm dropping this patch and writing a big patch to remove all the
k[mzc]alloc castings in the 20-rc3 tree as suggested by Mr. Robert Day.
I think this will be better done in another patch to let every patch do one
single thing. right ?

--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
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