From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:15:35 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: alx: Remove casts of pointer to same type
X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~176^2~4167^2~82
X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=60f40107ab7d722810fd8aa3f52590752a0a3acf;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git

alx: Remove casts of pointer to same type

Casting a pointer to a pointer of the same type is pointless,
so remove these unnecessary casts.

Done via coccinelle script:

$ cat typecast_2.cocci
@@
type T;
T *foo;
@@

-	(T *)foo
+	foo

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c
index 96f3edb6c738..17bb9ce96260 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ static int alx_alloc_descriptors(struct alx_priv *alx)
 	if (!alx->descmem.virt)
 		goto out_free;
 
-	alx->txq.tpd = (void *)alx->descmem.virt;
+	alx->txq.tpd = alx->descmem.virt;
 	alx->txq.tpd_dma = alx->descmem.dma;
 
 	/* alignment requirement for next block */