Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 25/25] chardev: Let qemu_chr_write[_all] use size_t

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 02:02:32AM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:

> diff --git a/include/chardev/char.h b/include/chardev/char.h
> index 0341dd1ba2..2e3b5a15ca 100644
> --- a/include/chardev/char.h
> +++ b/include/chardev/char.h
> @@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ void qemu_chr_set_feature(Chardev *chr,
>                            ChardevFeature feature);
>  QemuOpts *qemu_chr_parse_compat(const char *label, const char *filename,
>                                  bool permit_mux_mon);
> -int qemu_chr_write(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, int len, bool write_all);
> +int qemu_chr_write(Chardev *s, const uint8_t *buf, size_t len, bool write_all);

Seeing this cleanup reminds me that I think we ought to change
the chardev read & write functions to take "void *buf" instead.
as is done for regular libc  read/write functions. This would
avoid casts in the callers between char */uint8_t *

Something to think about for a future cleanup job....same applies
for the QIOChannel APIs which take a 'char *buf', annoyingly
different from the chardev APIs :-( Both ought to have void *buf


Regards,
Daniel
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