On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 10:13:27PM -0400, Lidza Louina wrote: > This patch replaces dgnc_driver_kzmalloc with kzalloc. > A patch that follows removes the dgnc_driver_kzmalloc > function. > > Signed-off-by: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 6 +++--- > drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- > 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c > index 8032368..4226f09 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c > @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static int dgnc_found_board(struct pci_dev *pdev, int id) > > /* get the board structure and prep it */ > brd = dgnc_Board[dgnc_NumBoards] = > - (struct board_t *) dgnc_driver_kzmalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL); > + (struct board_t *) kzalloc(sizeof(struct board_t), GFP_KERNEL); I'll take this for now, but all of these casts of the kzalloc() call need to go away, as they are pointless (kzalloc() returns a void *, which automatically can be assigned to any pointer type, no need to be explicit about it.) So that means you'll get another patch accepted modifying these same lines now :) thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel