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From: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9] Introduce libio to common code for io read/write
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 19:38:35 +0100
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 09:19:30AM -0800, Christoffer Dall wrote:
> > > How is this going to be used here?  The compat ptr stuff in the kernel
> > > deals with user space pointer iirc, but I'm not an expert on the
> > > details.  Does typedef'ing a pointer to a u32 in generic code work on a
> > > 64-bit platform?
> > 
> > This is necessary to eliminate compiler warnings when casting 64-bit
> > pointers to u32s.
> > 
> 
> ah, ok, a comment to that effect would be nice for us neandertals still
> mostly stuck in the 32-bit worlds.

OK

> > You should take a look, as they're not verbatim - although almost. I can't
> > recall where I might have diverged, I just know I didn't copy+paste :-)
> > 
> 
> Wonderful, I'll take a look :)

Thanks!!