2023-09-29 04:58:32

by Jeff Johnson

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 wireless-next 2/9] carl9170: remove unnecessary (void*) conversions

On 9/28/2023 8:31 AM, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Christian Lamparter <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On 9/19/23 06:49, Wu Yunchuan wrote:
>>> No need cast (void *) to (struct ar9170 *), (u8 *) or (void*).
>>
>> hmm, your mail went into the spam folder. Good thing I checked.
>>
>> From what I remember: The reason why these casts were added in
>> carl9170 was because of compiler warnings/complaints.
>> Current gcc compilers should be OK (given that the kernel-bot
>> didn't react, or went your Mail to their spam-folder as well?)
>> but have you checked these older versions?
>
> Do you remember anything more about these warnings? I tried to check the
> git history and at least quickly couldn't find anything related to this.
>
> The changes look very safe to me, struct urb::context field and the out
> variable are both of type 'void *' so removing the explicit casts should
> change anything. I cannot really come up a reason why would this patch
> cause new warnings so I am inclined towards taking this patch. What do
> you think?

Anything that would have had issue would have predated C99.
This change is safe.