Re: [PATCH] drivers: input: mouse: Remove useless casting incypress_ps2.c

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Oct 16 2013 - 14:41:43 EST


Hi Geyslan,

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 01:05:12PM -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> Casting (void *) value returned by kzalloc is useless
> as mentioned in Documentation/CodingStyle, Chap 14.
>
> Signed-off-by: Geyslan G. Bem <geyslan@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/input/mouse/cypress_ps2.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/cypress_ps2.c b/drivers/input/mouse/cypress_ps2.c
> index f51765f..ef651cc 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/mouse/cypress_ps2.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/mouse/cypress_ps2.c
> @@ -679,7 +679,7 @@ int cypress_init(struct psmouse *psmouse)
> {
> struct cytp_data *cytp;
>
> - cytp = (struct cytp_data *)kzalloc(sizeof(struct cytp_data), GFP_KERNEL);
> + cytp = kzalloc(sizeof(struct cytp_data), GFP_KERNEL);

I already have a patch for this from Jingoo Han in my queue.

> psmouse->private = (void *)cytp;

But this cast is also not needed, so if you could send me a patch for it
I'd appreciate that.

> if (cytp == NULL)
> return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 1.8.4
>

Thanks.

--
Dmitry
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