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Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 10:10:26 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Vatika Harlalka <vatikaharlalka@gmail.com>
Cc: outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: rtl8712: Remove unnecessary
 type cast.
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On Tue, Mar 03, 2015 at 11:36:21AM +0530, Vatika Harlalka wrote:
> Using addressof and then casting to the original type is unneeded.
> So these casts can be removed.
> Issue detected via Coccinelle script.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vatika Harlalka <vatikaharlalka@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c
> index 324da34..0a1c631 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8711/hal_init.c

This patch is malformed, with the directory name different.  This
"breaks" git, but not patch, and I've now notified the git developers
about it.  How did you create a patch like this?

Can you fix it up and resend it?

thanks,

greg k-h