[patch] staging: comedi: cleanup comedi_recognize()

[Dan Carpenter]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 12:06:10PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> Hi all,
> the patch is fine with me but i have a few basic questions:
> 
> Why the (void  *) at all ? it returns a name what is a const char *.
> 

We're really returning a pointer to a private struct, it's just that
the first element on the struct always has to be a pointer to char *.

> A look at the structure also shows that this is a linked list, why
> using offset instead of driv->next ?
> 

It's a different list.

regards,
dan carpenter