Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755770Ab0FIHq1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 03:46:27 -0400 Received: from mail.perches.com ([173.55.12.10]:2866 "EHLO mail.perches.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755585Ab0FIHq0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Jun 2010 03:46:26 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] treewide: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts From: Joe Perches To: Milton Miller , Jiri Kosina Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <1276068001_13533@mail4.comsite.net> References: <96933b66aa5f995746a34410ca63e5e8b84593cb.1275968594.git.joe@perches.com> <1276068001_13533@mail4.comsite.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:46:24 -0700 Message-ID: <1276069584.1556.27.camel@Joe-Laptop.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1001 Lines: 27 On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 02:20 -0500, Milton Miller wrote: > On Mon Jun 07 2010 at around 23:53:18 EST, Joe Perches wrote: > > Trivial cleanups > The reason they casts are present is to guard against someone changing > the type of p at the top of the function and not changing the type at > the kmalloc. That'd be true for most all of the kernel mallocs. > I know some maintainers have already taken some of > the series the last time you posted; could you please augment the > CC list. I did not send to trivial any of kmalloc cast removal patches that were acked. The patches in this series were not acked, so I think no CC list needs augmentation. Original: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/5/31/471 Newest: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/7/428 cheers, Joe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/