Mar 24 2014

altera: Remove casts of pointer to same type 

Author: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

Casting a pointer to a pointer of the same type is pointless,
so remove these unnecessary casts.

Done via coccinelle script:

$ cat typecast_2.cocci
@@
type T;
T *foo;
@@

-	(T *)foo
+	foo

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches 
Acked-by: Vince Bridgers 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller 

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
index 6006ef2..c70a29e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c
@@ -933,7 +933,7 @@ static int tse_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
 static void altera_tse_set_mcfilter(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct altera_tse_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
-	struct altera_tse_mac *mac = (struct altera_tse_mac *)priv->mac_dev;
+	struct altera_tse_mac *mac = priv->mac_dev;
 	int i;
 	struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;
 
@@ -963,7 +963,7 @@ static void altera_tse_set_mcfilter(struct net_device *dev)
 static void altera_tse_set_mcfilterall(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct altera_tse_private *priv = netdev_priv(dev);
-	struct altera_tse_mac *mac = (struct altera_tse_mac *)priv->mac_dev;
+	struct altera_tse_mac *mac = priv->mac_dev;
 	int i;
 
 	/* set the hash filter */

qlambert