Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2007 19:47:11 -0400 | From | Daniel Drake <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver |
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Jesper Juhl wrote: > What would be wrong in applying my patch that removes the cast of the > kmalloc() return value and then also remove the "__nocast" here?
We use it as a safety measure when coding. For example the write register function takes an address and a value. We got one of these the wrong way round once, and had a non-obvious bug.
nocast and sparse helps us prevent this.
Daniel
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