RE: [PATCH 0/5] [RFC] printk/ia64/ppc64/parisc64: let's deprecate %pF/%pf printk specifiers

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David Laight <hidden>
Date
2017-09-19 13:38:56
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Sergey Senozhatsky, 2017-09-19
From: Sergey Senozhatsky
Sent: 19 September 2017 03:06
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I'll simply convert everything to `unsigned long'. including the
dereference_function_descriptor() function [I believe there are
still some casts happening when we pass addr from kernel/module
dereference functions to dereference_function_descriptor(), or
when we return `void *' back to symbol resolution code, etc.)
besides, it seems that everything that uses
dereference_function_descriptor() wants `unsigned long' anyway:
Using 'unsigned long' for any kind of pointer is an accident
waiting do happen.
It also makes it difficult to typecheck the function calls.
Using 'void *' isn't any better.
Either a pointer to an undefined struct, or a struct containing
a single 'char' member, is likely to be safest.

	David
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