From: Jesper Juhl It doesn't make sense to cast NULL. This patch removes the pointless casts from drivers/atm/nicstar.c Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/atm/nicstar.c | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/atm/nicstar.c~atm-nicstar-remove-a-bunch-of-pointless-casts-of-null drivers/atm/nicstar.c --- 25/drivers/atm/nicstar.c~atm-nicstar-remove-a-bunch-of-pointless-casts-of-null Tue May 10 16:00:18 2005 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/atm/nicstar.c Tue May 10 16:00:18 2005 @@ -676,10 +676,10 @@ static int __devinit ns_init_card(int i, PRINTK("nicstar%d: RSQ base at 0x%x.\n", i, (u32) card->rsq.base); /* Initialize SCQ0, the only VBR SCQ used */ - card->scq1 = (scq_info *) NULL; - card->scq2 = (scq_info *) NULL; + card->scq1 = NULL; + card->scq2 = NULL; card->scq0 = get_scq(VBR_SCQSIZE, NS_VRSCD0); - if (card->scq0 == (scq_info *) NULL) + if (card->scq0 == NULL) { printk("nicstar%d: can't get SCQ0.\n", i); error = 12; @@ -993,24 +993,24 @@ static scq_info *get_scq(int size, u32 s int i; if (size != VBR_SCQSIZE && size != CBR_SCQSIZE) - return (scq_info *) NULL; + return NULL; scq = (scq_info *) kmalloc(sizeof(scq_info), GFP_KERNEL); - if (scq == (scq_info *) NULL) - return (scq_info *) NULL; + if (scq == NULL) + return NULL; scq->org = kmalloc(2 * size, GFP_KERNEL); if (scq->org == NULL) { kfree(scq); - return (scq_info *) NULL; + return NULL; } scq->skb = (struct sk_buff **) kmalloc(sizeof(struct sk_buff *) * (size / NS_SCQE_SIZE), GFP_KERNEL); - if (scq->skb == (struct sk_buff **) NULL) + if (scq->skb == NULL) { kfree(scq->org); kfree(scq); - return (scq_info *) NULL; + return NULL; } scq->num_entries = size / NS_SCQE_SIZE; scq->base = (ns_scqe *) ALIGN_ADDRESS(scq->org, size); @@ -1498,7 +1498,7 @@ static int ns_open(struct atm_vcc *vcc) vc->cbr_scd = NS_FRSCD + frscdi * NS_FRSCD_SIZE; scq = get_scq(CBR_SCQSIZE, vc->cbr_scd); - if (scq == (scq_info *) NULL) + if (scq == NULL) { PRINTK("nicstar%d: can't get fixed rate SCQ.\n", card->index); card->scd2vc[frscdi] = NULL; _