From: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:45:21 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: [PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast
X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e5717c48ed52feebd59756578debd34eaeb9d262;p=linux-beck.git

[PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast

tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast (expected and passed
types are both const char *)

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 5289254e7ab3..df467284ff4e 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3713,15 +3713,14 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_driver *driver)
 
 	if (!driver->major) {
 		error = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev, driver->minor_start, driver->num,
-						(char*)driver->name);
+						driver->name);
 		if (!error) {
 			driver->major = MAJOR(dev);
 			driver->minor_start = MINOR(dev);
 		}
 	} else {
 		dev = MKDEV(driver->major, driver->minor_start);
-		error = register_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num,
-						(char*)driver->name);
+		error = register_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num, driver->name);
 	}
 	if (error < 0) {
 		kfree(p);