From: "Ken Chen" clean up unneeded type cast by properly declare data type. Signed-off-by: Ken Chen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- arch/i386/lib/bitops.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN arch/i386/lib/bitops.c~type-cast-clean-up-for-find_next_zero_bit arch/i386/lib/bitops.c --- a/arch/i386/lib/bitops.c~type-cast-clean-up-for-find_next_zero_bit +++ a/arch/i386/lib/bitops.c @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_next_bit); */ int find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned long *addr, int size, int offset) { - unsigned long * p = ((unsigned long *) addr) + (offset >> 5); + const unsigned long *p = addr + (offset >> 5); int set = 0, bit = offset & 31, res; if (bit) { @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ int find_next_zero_bit(const unsigned lo /* * No zero yet, search remaining full bytes for a zero */ - res = find_first_zero_bit (p, size - 32 * (p - (unsigned long *) addr)); + res = find_first_zero_bit(p, size - 32 * (p - addr)); return (offset + set + res); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(find_next_zero_bit); _