Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Jun 09 2010 - 03:46:31 EST


On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 02:20 -0500, Milton Miller wrote:
> On Mon Jun 07 2010 at around 23:53:18 EST, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Trivial cleanups
> The reason they casts are present is to guard against someone changing
> the type of p at the top of the function and not changing the type at
> the kmalloc.

That'd be true for most all of the kernel mallocs.

> I know some maintainers have already taken some of
> the series the last time you posted; could you please augment the
> CC list.

I did not send to trivial any of kmalloc cast removal patches that
were acked. The patches in this series were not acked, so I think
no CC list needs augmentation.

Original: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/31/471
Newest: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/7/428

cheers, Joe

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