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SubjectRe: Large block device patch, part 1 of 9
On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 09:04:01AM +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
> Unfortunately, this doesn't really buy you much ---- standard C type
> promotion rules mean that whatever (within reason) you pass to
> llsect() will work without warning.

Not if someone changes a variable to a pointer by accident without
updating the printk. It does happen.

-ben
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