The quilt patch titled Subject: arch/alpha/kernel/process.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was kernel-process-remove-unnecessary-void-conversions.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Li zeming <zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: arch/alpha/kernel/process.c: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2022 15:36:33 +0800 generic_ptr is a void * type and does not require a cast. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221213073633.3586-1-zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Li zeming <zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c~kernel-process-remove-unnecessary-void-conversions +++ a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ struct halt_info { static void common_shutdown_1(void *generic_ptr) { - struct halt_info *how = (struct halt_info *)generic_ptr; + struct halt_info *how = generic_ptr; struct percpu_struct *cpup; unsigned long *pflags, flags; int cpuid = smp_processor_id(); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from zeming@xxxxxxxxxxxx are