Re: [PATCH 03/17][trivial] GPU DRM: Remove unnecessary casts of voidptr returning alloc function return values

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Jan 19 2011 - 09:23:27 EST


On Tue, 9 Nov 2010, Jesper Juhl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The [vk][cmz]alloc(_node) family of functions return void pointers which
> it's completely unnecessary/pointless to cast to other pointer types since
> that happens implicitly.
>
> This patch removes such casts from drivers/gpu/drm/
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drm_sman.c | 4 +---
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sman.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sman.c
> index 463aed9..3466458 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sman.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_sman.c
> @@ -59,9 +59,7 @@ drm_sman_init(struct drm_sman * sman, unsigned int num_managers,
> {
> int ret = 0;
>
> - sman->mm = (struct drm_sman_mm *) kcalloc(num_managers,
> - sizeof(*sman->mm),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + sman->mm = kcalloc(num_managers, sizeof(*sman->mm), GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!sman->mm) {
> ret = -ENOMEM;
> goto out;
>

Doesn't seem to be present in linux-next as of today, applied to trivial
queue.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.
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