In C, we don't need such a cast. Fixes: ae20b254306a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: enable VMBus protocol version 5.0") Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Thanks Stephen Hemminger for pointing this out! So far, ae20b254306a ("Drivers: hv: vmbus: enable VMBus protocol version 5.0") only appears in the char-misc tree's char-misc-testing and char-misc-next branches. If possible, please merge both patches into one. drivers/hv/connection.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hv/connection.c b/drivers/hv/connection.c index 19e0468..ced0418 100644 --- a/drivers/hv/connection.c +++ b/drivers/hv/connection.c @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ int vmbus_post_msg(void *buffer, size_t buflen, bool can_sleep) * HV_STATUS_INVALID_CONNECTION_ID and we should * return an error immediately without retrying. */ - hdr = (struct vmbus_channel_message_header *)buffer; + hdr = buffer; if (hdr->msgtype == CHANNELMSG_INITIATE_CONTACT) return -EINVAL; /* -- 2.7.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel