From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <darwish.07@gmail.com>
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:06:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070105100610.GA382@Ahmed> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701050910.11828.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 09:10:01AM +0100, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> Ahmed S. Darwish wrote:
> > Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in drivers/char/tty_io.c
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ahmed Darwish <darwish.07@gmail.com>
>
> if (!*ltp_loc) {
> - ltp = (struct ktermios *) kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios),
> - GFP_KERNEL);
> + ltp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), GFP_KERNEL);
> ^^^^^^^
> if (!ltp)
> goto free_mem_out;
> memset(ltp, 0, sizeof(struct ktermios));
> ^^^^^^
> kzalloc
>
> if (!*o_ltp_loc) {
> - o_ltp = (struct ktermios *)
> - kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), GFP_KERNEL);
> + o_ltp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ktermios), GFP_KERNEL);
> ^^^^^^^
> if (!o_ltp)
> goto free_mem_out;
> memset(o_ltp, 0, sizeof(struct ktermios));
> ^^^^^^
> kzalloc
Currently I'm dropping this patch and writing a big patch to remove all the
k[mzc]alloc castings in the 20-rc3 tree as suggested by Mr. Robert Day.
I think this will be better done in another patch to let every patch do one
single thing. right ?
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
http://darwish-07.blogspot.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-05 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-05 6:36 [PATCH 2.6.20-rc3] TTY_IO: Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-05 6:56 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-05 7:14 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-05 8:10 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-01-05 10:06 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2007-01-05 10:18 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-05 10:39 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-01-05 10:51 ` Alan
2007-01-05 10:41 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-05 11:03 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-06 2:36 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-06 7:35 ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-01-05 10:26 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2007-01-05 10:32 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2007-01-05 11:54 ` Rolf Eike Beer
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