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/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_ethtool.c
index 6e61f9f9ebb5..82b23861bf55 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/atl1e/atl1e_ethtool.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int atl1e_set_eeprom(struct net_device *netdev,
 	if (eeprom_buff == NULL)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ptr = (u32 *)eeprom_buff;
+	ptr = eeprom_buff;
 
 	if (eeprom->offset & 3) {
 		/* need read/modify/write of first changed EEPROM word */