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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cosa.h ioctl numbers
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 16:13:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jellcgag2v.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041202141132.GO11992@fi.muni.cz> (Jan Kasprzak's message of "Thu, 2 Dec 2004 15:11:32 +0100")

Jan Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz> writes:

> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> : If you want real compatibility you should use size_t, which is what 2.4 is
> : effectively using.
> : 
> 	I assume that sizeof(struct .. *) == sizeof(size_t) on i386.

This has nothing to do with this, but everything to do with
sizeof(sizeof(foo)) == sizeof(size_t).  And COSAIODOWNLD does not expect a
pointer to a pointer but a pointer to struct cosa_download, which means
that _IOW('C',0xf2,struct cosa_download *) would be completely wrong
anyway.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 15:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-12-02 12:44 [PATCH] cosa.h ioctl numbers Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 12:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-12-02 13:12   ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 13:57     ` Andreas Schwab
2004-12-02 14:11       ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 15:13         ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2004-12-02 15:50           ` Linus Torvalds
2005-01-06 10:02             ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 15:56           ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 16:45             ` Andreas Schwab

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