On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 09:34:35PM +0000, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
----- On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:37 PM, Thomas Gleixner tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2016, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
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----- On Jan 27, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Thomas Gleixner tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org wrote:
Sounds fair. What is the recommended typing for "ptr" then ?
uint32_t ** or uint32_t * ?
It would be expected to pass a "uint32_t *" for the set
operation, but the "get" operation requires a "uint32_t **".
Well, you can't change the types depending on the opcode, so you need to stick
with **.
Alternatively you make it:
(opcode, *newptr, **oldptr, flags);
I'm tempted to stick to (opcode, **ptr, flags), because
other syscalls that have "*newptr", "**oldptr"
typically have them because they save the current state
into oldptr, and set the new state, which is really
not the case here. To eliminate any risk of confusion,
I am tempted to keep a single "**ptr".
Unless someone has a better idea...
Either that or you could define it as "void *" and interpret it based on
flags, but that seems unfortunate; let's not imitate ioctl-style
typeless parameters. I'd stick with the double pointer and the current
behavior.