Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 22:15:18 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RELEASE] megaraid 2.10.2 Driver |
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Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote: >>>ummmm what??? uxferaddr is u32. why are you casting it to a pointer? > > > Both copy_to_user and copy_from_user take pointers, don't they?
Yes, but consider on x86-64 a native pointer is _always_ 32-bit, therefore the interface is broken if it assumes the input pointer is 32 bits.
Jeff
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