This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Subject: usb: avoid redundant cast of kmalloc() return value in OTi-6858 driver
to my gregkh-2.6 tree. Its filename is usb-avoid-redundant-cast-of-kmalloc-return-value-in-oti-6858-driver.patch This tree can be found at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/ >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 23 17:38:13 2007 From: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 02:35:14 +0200 Subject: usb: avoid redundant cast of kmalloc() return value in OTi-6858 driver To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Disposition: inline In drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c::pl2303_buf_alloc() the return value of kmalloc() is being cast to "struct pl2303_buf *", but that need not be done here since kmalloc() returns "void *". Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/oti6858.c @@ -1144,7 +1144,7 @@ static struct pl2303_buf *pl2303_buf_all if (size == 0) return NULL; - pb = (struct pl2303_buf *)kmalloc(sizeof(struct pl2303_buf), GFP_KERNEL); + pb = kmalloc(sizeof(struct pl2303_buf), GFP_KERNEL); if (pb == NULL) return NULL; Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are bad/speakup-kconfig-fix.patch usb/usb-clean-up-duplicate-includes-in-drivers-usb.patch usb/usb-avoid-redundant-cast-of-kmalloc-return-value-in-oti-6858-driver.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/