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Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver

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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@...>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@...>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...>, <netdev@...>, David S. Miller <davem@...>, Ulrich Kunitz <kune@...>, <linux-wireless@...>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return value casts in zd1211 driver
Date: Thursday, August 30, 2007 - 7:47 pm

Jesper Juhl wrote:

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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Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return val..., Daniel Drake, (Thu Aug 30, 1:54 pm)
Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return val..., Jesper Juhl, (Thu Aug 30, 4:20 pm)
Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return val..., Herbert Xu, (Fri Aug 31, 5:30 am)
Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return val..., Daniel Drake, (Thu Aug 30, 7:47 pm)
Re: [PATCH 13/30] net: Don't do pointless kmalloc return val..., Joe Perches, (Thu Aug 30, 6:19 pm)
[PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in zd_c..., Jesper Juhl, (Thu Aug 30, 6:30 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in ..., Randy Dunlap, (Thu Aug 30, 6:42 pm)
Re: [PATCH] Don't needlessly initialize variable to NULL in ..., Jesper Juhl, (Thu Aug 30, 7:04 pm)