On Mon, 14 May 2018 18:14:15 +0000 Dexuan Cui <de...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> > From: devel <driverdev-devel-boun...@linuxdriverproject.org> On Behalf Of > > Stephen Hemminger > > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2018 10:24 > > > ... > > > @@ -372,6 +400,18 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen, > > bool can_sleep) > > > ... > > > + hdr = (struct vmbus_channel_message_header *)buffer; > > > > Hate to pick o the details, but buffer is void * so cast is not necessary > > here. > > Yes, it's unnecessary in C, though it's necessary in C++. > > I found the patch went into char-misc 4 hours ago, so it looks we may > as well leave it as is. IMHO an explicit cast is not a bad thing. :-) > > Thanks, > -- Dexuan Kernel developers like to be concise. In fact there is a smatch script that perodically gets run and more cleanup patches get sent.
