ethernet: Remove casts to same type

Adding casts of objects to the same type is unnecessary
and confusing for a human reader.

For example, this cast:

        int y;
        int *p = (int *)&y;

I used the coccinelle script below to find and remove these
unnecessary casts.  I manually removed the conversions this
script produces of casts with __force, __iomem and __user.

@@
type T;
T *p;
@@

-       (T *)p
+       p

A function in atl1e_main.c was passed a const pointer
when it actually modified elements of the structure.

Change the argument to a non-const pointer.

A function in stmmac needed a __force to avoid a sparse
warning.  Added it.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c
index 923959275a82..912ed7a5f33a 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/8390/apne.c
@@ -454,7 +454,7 @@ apne_block_input(struct net_device *dev, int count, struct sk_buff *skb, int rin
 	buf[count-1] = inb(NE_BASE + NE_DATAPORT);
       }
     } else {
-      ptrc = (char*)buf;
+      ptrc = buf;
       for (cnt = 0; cnt < count; cnt++)
         *ptrc++ = inb(NE_BASE + NE_DATAPORT);
     }