From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Why do the rh_alloc functions return a pointer?
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:34:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45D4C3CF.9080800@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45D4C2CB.2080703@246tNt.com>
Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> I talked about it with Panto on IRC a few days ago.
>
> And he agrees that the function could be changed to user "unsigned long"
> instead of "void *".
Well, if there is a consensus that this should be changed, then I'll make the patch.
However, since the function prototype for all architectures is in
include/asm-ppc/rheap.h, I'll need to change powerpc and ppc in the same patch,
otherwise one of the two will break.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-15 20:34 UTC|newest]
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2007-02-15 19:29 Why do the rh_alloc functions return a pointer? Timur Tabi
2007-02-15 20:30 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-02-15 20:34 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
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