[U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fix use of "void *" for block dev read/write buffer pointers

[Denis Peter <d.peter@mpl.ch>]

Hello Stefan,

On Friday 13 April 2007 09:18, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> On Friday 13 April 2007 08:54, Grant Likely wrote:
> > > > Denis, could you please take a look at this patch and let me know if
> > > > this patch supersedes your patch:
> > > >
> > > > "Re: [U-Boot-Users] [PATCH] Fix bugs in cmd_ide.c and cmd_scsi.c"
> > > >
> > > > from April, 2nd?
> > >
> > > My patch from April, 2nd, fixes this issue already. In my patch I decided
> > > to just cast the pointer back to ulong *, since I don't know if it is a
> > > good idea to increment a pointer to void *.
> >
> > Incrementing a void* is safe.
> >
> > Personally, I prefer the solution in Greg's patch.
> 
> I appied Greg's patch and the device# part of Denis's patch to my 
> u-boot-ppc4xx repository. Please give it a try and let me know if the issues 
> are fixed now:

I currently don't have the hardware to test the scsiboot, but I tested "ide_read",
"ide_write" and "diskboot". It works, so I assume "scsiboot" is also Ok.

Thank you.

Best regards,
Denis