From: Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
To: Luca Tettamanti <kronos.it@gmail.com>
Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: why "probe_kernel_address()", not "probe_user_address()"?
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:02:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610291402.33890.vda.linux@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061028203014.GA7183@dreamland.darkstar.lan>
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:30, Luca Tettamanti wrote:
> probe_kernel_address wrapper is used to "hide" the fact that we are
> re-using the infrastructure provided by a function with a confusing name
> ;) The cast to __user is needed to keep sparse quiet.
Shouldn't the above text be placed in a comment above probe_kernel_address()
definition? ;)
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vda
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-29 12:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 15:56 why "probe_kernel_address()", not "probe_user_address()"? Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-28 16:29 ` Andrew Morton
2006-10-28 16:52 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-28 17:02 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-28 20:30 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-10-28 21:01 ` Robert P. J. Day
2006-10-29 15:49 ` Luca Tettamanti
2006-10-29 13:02 ` Denis Vlasenko [this message]
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