Get rid of dubious casts to (void *) which causes a sparse warning.
And move largeish function from inline to the one file that uses the code,
the compiler can then decide to inline it.

Compile tested only.
Signed-off-by: NStephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>