Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 31 Jul 2007 22:09:58 +0800 | | From | WANG Cong <> | | Subject | Re: [Patch 04/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts from the sparc arch. |
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On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:53:20PM +0100, jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org wrote: >Signed-off-by: Jack Stone <jack@hawkeye.stone.uk.eu.org> > >CC: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> > >--- > arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > >Index: b/arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c >=================================================================== >--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c >+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/ebus.c >@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ static struct ebus_device_irq *ebus_blac > */ > static inline unsigned long ebus_alloc(size_t size) > { >- return (unsigned long)kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC); >+ return kmalloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
AFAIK, this cast is necessary, since void * is a pointer type while unsigned long is not.
Regards.
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