[PATCH 0/15]Remove unneeded casts of memory-alloc function return values

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Subject: [PATCH 0/15]Remove unneeded casts of memory-alloc function return values
From: Firo Yang <firogm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 13:33:50 +0800
Cc: dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx, julia.lawall@xxxxxxx

The memory-alloc() functions return a void pointer, so when 
assigning to a pointer type variable there is no need to cast 
the return value.

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