The patch titled Subject: fb: hx8357: Change parameters of the write function to u8 has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-change-parameters-of-the-write-function-to-u8.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: fb: hx8357: Change parameters of the write function to u8 Moving from void* to u8* removes the need for castslater on in the function. Signed-off-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@xxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/backlight/hx8357.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/video/backlight/hx8357.c~fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-change-parameters-of-the-write-function-to-u8 drivers/video/backlight/hx8357.c --- a/drivers/video/backlight/hx8357.c~fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-change-parameters-of-the-write-function-to-u8 +++ a/drivers/video/backlight/hx8357.c @@ -79,8 +79,8 @@ struct hx8357_data { }; static int hx8357_spi_write_then_read(struct lcd_device *lcdev, - void *txbuf, u16 txlen, - void *rxbuf, u16 rxlen) + u8 *txbuf, u16 txlen, + u8 *rxbuf, u16 rxlen) { struct hx8357_data *lcd = lcd_get_data(lcdev); struct spi_message msg; @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int hx8357_spi_write_then_read(st } for (i = 0; i < txlen; i++) { - local_txbuf[i] = ((u8 *)txbuf)[i]; + local_txbuf[i] = txbuf[i]; if (i > 0) local_txbuf[i] |= 1 << 8; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from maxime.ripard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller.patch fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-change-parameters-of-the-write-function-to-u8.patch fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-fix-inverted-parameters-for-kcalloc.patch fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-remove-useless-error-message.patch fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-remove-trailing-period.patch fb-backlight-add-the-himax-hx-8357b-lcd-controller-use-static-arrays-for-lcd-configuration.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html