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Re: [ath9k-devel] [PATCH net-next 1/2] wireless: Remove casts of void *

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On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 12:31 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On 06/14/2011 12:02 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> >   		/* Get the message ID */
> > -		msg_id = (__be16 *) ((void *) htc_hdr +
> > -				     sizeof(struct htc_frame_hdr));
> > +		msg_id = (void *)htc_hdr + sizeof(struct htc_frame_hdr);
> I would never do stuff like this without verifying by sparse that no 
> warnings are introduced.

I did that.  I believe there are no new warnings.

> Sparse warnings should be avoided to keep sparse checks useful. 
> Otherwise, important warnings would drown in the noise.

$ make allyesconfig
$ git log -1 --pretty=oneline drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c
337c22b774ff7f007b90b266b25c9a33ff555c48 wireless: Remove casts of void *
$ make C=2 drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.o
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/generated/utsrelease.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CHECK   scripts/mod/empty.c
  CHECK   drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.c
  CC      drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_hst.o
$

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