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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 14:57:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeu0r4ajl4.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041202131224.GI11992@fi.muni.cz> (Jan Kasprzak's message of "Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:12:25 +0100")

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

> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> : >  /* Write the block to the device memory (i.e. download the microcode) */
> : > -#define COSAIODOWNLD	_IOW('C',0xf2, struct cosa_download)
> : > +#define COSAIODOWNLD	_IOW('C',0xf2, struct cosa_download *)
> : 
> : Isn't that rather misleading? I suppose the real argument is 
> : 'struct cosa_download', so you should have some kind of comment there, 
> : e.g.
> : 
> : #define COSAIODOWNLD _IOW('C',0xf2, long) /* actually struct cosa_download */
>
> 	Well, the third argument of ioctl(2) is of type
> struct cosa_download *.
>
> 	OK, second try with comments added.

If you want real compatibility you should use size_t, which is what 2.4 is
effectively using.

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-02 13:57 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 [this message]
2004-12-02 14:11       ` Jan Kasprzak
2004-12-02 15:13         ` Andreas Schwab
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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