megacheck, gosimple and unused has been deprecated and subsumed by
staticcheck. And staticcheck also has been upgraded. we need to update
code for the linter issue.
close: #2945
Signed-off-by: Wei Fu <fuweid89@gmail.com>
This linter checks for unnecessary type convertions.
Some convertions are whitelisted because their type is different
on 32bit platforms
Signed-off-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@gmail.com>
gometalinter runs linters in parallel for faster linting
it provides a uniform way of whitelisting lines using // nolint or the exclude
field in the config
Signed-off-by: Daniel Nephin <dnephin@gmail.com>