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* [PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast
@ 2007-02-20 14:45 Geert Uytterhoeven
  2007-02-20 16:39 ` Alan
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Geert Uytterhoeven @ 2007-02-20 14:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton
  Cc: Adrian `trivial' Bunk, Linux Kernel Development

tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast (expected and passed
types are both const char *)

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>

--- ps3-linux-2.6.20.orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ ps3-linux-2.6.20/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3713,15 +3713,14 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_drive
 
 	if (!driver->major) {
 		error = alloc_chrdev_region(&dev, driver->minor_start, driver->num,
-						(char*)driver->name);
+						driver->name);
 		if (!error) {
 			driver->major = MAJOR(dev);
 			driver->minor_start = MINOR(dev);
 		}
 	} else {
 		dev = MKDEV(driver->major, driver->minor_start);
-		error = register_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num,
-						(char*)driver->name);
+		error = register_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num, driver->name);
 	}
 	if (error < 0) {
 		kfree(p);

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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* Re: [PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast
  2007-02-20 14:45 [PATCH] tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast Geert Uytterhoeven
@ 2007-02-20 16:39 ` Alan
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Alan @ 2007-02-20 16:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Geert Uytterhoeven
  Cc: Linus Torvalds, Andrew Morton, Adrian `trivial' Bunk,
	Linux Kernel Development

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 15:45:21 +0100 (CET)
Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> wrote:

> tty_register_driver: Remove incorrect and superfluous cast (expected and passed
> types are both const char *)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>

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