On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:30:21AM +0100, Andr? Lopes wrote: > Hi. This is my first post :-) > > I was reading this doc (/linux-2.6/Documentation/scsi/ChangeLog.lpfc), > when I found this phrase: "Replace some kfree((void*)ptr) with > kfree(ptr)." > [snip] > These casts are not necessary...I think so. If it's yes, can we apply > patch's to clean-up this? > The key thing here is "ptr", as long as these are pointers, then the cast is superfluous. In the case of casting from a non-pointer type, the cast is necessary, particularly if the data type and pointer size vary. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
