Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2014 12:08:42 +0200 | From | Jan Moskyto Matejka <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] net: via-rhine: fix compiler warning |
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> > Also thanks for suggesting (void*)->(unsigned long), I didn't > > know that these two are defined to have the same size (in kernel code). > > The kernel assumes that throughout - the double cast is common. > The C99 type is uintptr_t - but I don't think that is defined in kernel. > The only place I know where sizeof (long) != sizeof (void *) is 64bit > windows. So anyone trying to compile a linux driver to run in the > windows kernel might have issues (never mind the GPL ones).
My colleague here has just explained me the same. :)
Being a linux-kernel newbie, I'm learning every day. Kernel programming is more different from userspace than I ever thought. Thank you for your patience. -- Jan Matějka <mq@suse.cz> SUSE Labs [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |