From: Thomas Meyer Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 12:43:40 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ks8*/ksz8*: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7a2da3d45cc6f623bbb83a813478b10dbcb45968;p=linux-beck.git ks8*/ksz8*: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless The semantic patch that makes this change is available in scripts/coccinelle/api/alloc/drop_kmalloc_cast.cocci. Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c index d19c849059d8..228c5c0b50de 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c @@ -1500,8 +1500,7 @@ static int ks_hw_init(struct ks_net *ks) ks->all_mcast = 0; ks->mcast_lst_size = 0; - ks->frame_head_info = (struct type_frame_head *) \ - kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); + ks->frame_head_info = kmalloc(MHEADER_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL); if (!ks->frame_head_info) { pr_err("Error: Fail to allocate frame memory\n"); return false;