[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/librte_mbuf: remove void * pointer cast

[Yang, Zhiyong]

Drop this one since the patch doesn't follow the convention. I will resend another new one.

Thanks
Zhiyong

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yang, Zhiyong
> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 5:13 PM
> To: dev at dpdk.org
> Cc: thomas at monjalon.net; Yigit, Ferruh <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>; Yang,
> Zhiyong <zhiyong.yang at intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH] lib/librte_mbuf: remove void * pointer cast
> 
> It is unnecessary to cast from void * to struct rte_mbuf *, the change can
> make code more simple.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhiyong Yang <zhiyong.yang at intel.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h index
> a594e4772..2fd4f5ef9 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_mbuf/rte_mbuf.h
> @@ -896,11 +896,9 @@ rte_mbuf_sanity_check(const struct rte_mbuf *m,
> int is_header);  static inline struct rte_mbuf *rte_mbuf_raw_alloc(struct
> rte_mempool *mp)  {
>  	struct rte_mbuf *m;
> -	void *mb = NULL;
> 
> -	if (rte_mempool_get(mp, &mb) < 0)
> +	if (rte_mempool_get(mp, (void **)&m) < 0)
>  		return NULL;
> -	m = (struct rte_mbuf *)mb;
>  	MBUF_RAW_ALLOC_CHECK(m);
>  	return m;
>  }
> --
> 2.13.3