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[2003:f6:5f11:4e08:a760:2820:1001:2dc7]) by smtp.gmail.com with UTF8SMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-488fc0f8188sm455887645e9.2.2026.04.22.01.39.10 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Wed, 22 Apr 2026 01:39:10 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2026 10:39:09 +0200 From: Uwe =?utf-8?Q?Kleine-K=C3=B6nig_=28The_Capable_Hub=29?= To: Andy Shevchenko Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz , Ulf Hansson , "Christian A. Ehrhardt" , linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman , Wolfram Sang , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Marcel Holtmann , linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, Matthias Brugger , AngeloGioacchino Del Regno , linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org, Ping-Ke Shih , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, Felix Fietkau , Lorenzo Bianconi , Ryder Lee , Shayne Chen , Sean Wang , Brian Norris , Francesco Dolcini Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] sdio: Add syntactic sugar to store a pointer in sdio_driver_id Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="vqsqetyrnjrxwten" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20260422_013914_380435_ACBB6983 X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 22.53 ) X-BeenThere: linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "Linux-mediatek" Errors-To: linux-mediatek-bounces+linux-mediatek=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org --vqsqetyrnjrxwten Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/6] sdio: Add syntactic sugar to store a pointer in sdio_driver_id MIME-Version: 1.0 On Wed, Apr 22, 2026 at 09:52:11AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 10:12:41AM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K=C3=B6nig (The Capa= ble Hub) wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 04:46:56PM -0400, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 4:31=E2=80=AFPM Uwe Kleine-K=C3=B6nig (The Ca= pable Hub) > > > wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 17, 2026 at 03:10:47PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-K=C3=B6nig (Th= e Capable Hub) wrote: > > > > > On all current Linux architectures sizeof(long) =3D=3D sizeof(voi= d *) and > > > > > this is used a lot through the kernel. For example it enables the= usual > > > > > practice to store pointers in sdio_driver_id's .driver_data membe= r. > > > > > > > > > > This works fine, but involves casting and thus isn't type-safe. > >=20 > > To be honest, with the involved void* this isn't really type-safe > > either, but at least the data keeps being a pointer which is really > > helpful on CHERI. FTR: The alternative would be to use uintptr_t instead > > of unsigned long, which also has proponents in the CHERI community and > > which is used in the current vendor patch stack. >=20 > FWIW, Linus categorically told that it has to be no uintptr_t in the Linu= x kernel. Then I'm lucky that this patch set doesn't introduce uintptr_t and so we can delay the discussion with Linus about that. (And we will have to hold that discussion at some point, because on CHERI we have sizeof(unsigned long) =3D 8 < sizeof(void *) =3D 16. I didn't check, but I think also unsigned long long cannot hold a void*. 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