From: Jesper Juhl Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2010 23:09:02 +0000 (+0100) Subject: mtd: remove unnecessary casts of void ptr returning alloc function return values X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~7613^2~2667^2~44 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ce4a37f7c93e9b12ac1452bedd823d73c43c0e63;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git mtd: remove unnecessary casts of void ptr returning alloc function return values 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/mtd/ Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- diff --git a/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c b/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c index 60146984f4be..c08e140d40ed 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/maps/tqm8xxl.c @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static int __init init_tqm_mtd(void) goto error_mem; } - map_banks[idx]->name = (char *)kmalloc(16, GFP_KERNEL); + map_banks[idx]->name = kmalloc(16, GFP_KERNEL); if (!map_banks[idx]->name) { ret = -ENOMEM;