staging: gdm72xx: Remove useless cast on void pointer
authorTapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@gmail.com>
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 11:32:15 +0000 (17:02 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 30 Oct 2014 20:05:47 +0000 (13:05 -0700)
void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.

The semantic patch used to find this:

@r@
expression x;
void* e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@

(
  *((T *)e)
|
  ((T *)x)[...]
|
  ((T *)x)->f
|
- (T *)
  e
)

Build tested it.

Signed-off-by: Tapasweni Pathak <tapaswenipathak@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/gdm72xx/gdm_wimax.c

index 5b7747f6b84707b732dcdf4bd9c015d0310d1f16..9cab54bfa6f4d6f21f42dd257743d546d6d5baa4 100644 (file)
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static void gdm_wimax_event_rcv(struct net_device *dev, u16 type, void *msg,
 {
        struct nic *nic = netdev_priv(dev);
 
-       u8 *buf = (u8 *)msg;
+       u8 *buf = msg;
        u16 hci_cmd =  (buf[0]<<8) | buf[1];
        u16 hci_len = (buf[2]<<8) | buf[3];