Nov 17 2011

ks8*/ksz8*: Casting (void *) value returned by kmalloc is useless 

Author: Thomas Meyer <thomas@m3y3r.de>

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 

---
 drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/micrel/ks8851_mll.c
index d19c849..228c5c0 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;

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