On Thu, Jul 14, 2022 at 05:00:19PM -0500, Steve French wrote: > For examples like this where a pointer which is (void *) is cast to > something else, is this considered bad coding style in kernel C > programming? > > It may be that leaving the (unnecessary) cast in, although it is not > required for C, makes the code clearer in some cases. > > Any opinions on changes to remove casts of void pointers for kernel > code (which I have recently seen suggested)? > Pointless casts are bad, but the churn is bad too... regards, dan carpenter
