From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: change rheap functions to use long integers instead of pointers
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:05:38 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4613E8F2.8030104@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4613E7CC.1020001@246tNt.com>
Sylvain Munaut wrote:
> Since the case where you manage offset is more common, it make senses to
> change the types to unsigned long. However the other usage model (manage
> addresses) should still be possible (using type casts only).
You'll have to explain to me how this works. None of the current users of rheap operate
in this way. They all take the return value and cast them to unsigned ints/longs and then
use them as an offset into the buffer.
--
Timur Tabi
Linux Kernel Developer @ Freescale
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 16:02 [PATCH] powerpc: change rheap functions to use long integers instead of pointers Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 16:42 ` Kumar Gala
2007-04-04 17:36 ` Pantelis Antoniou
2007-04-04 17:42 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:00 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-04-04 18:05 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2007-04-04 18:13 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 19:15 ` Dan Malek
2007-04-04 19:20 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 19:31 ` Sylvain Munaut
2007-04-04 18:13 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-04 18:19 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:24 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-04 18:27 ` Timur Tabi
2007-04-04 18:31 ` Scott Wood
2007-04-04 18:34 ` Timur Tabi
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