[PATCH 3/9] staging: comedi: change type of auto-config context

Dan Carpenter dan.carpenter at oracle.com
Sat Oct 20 03:44:03 UTC 2012


On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:07:33PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> Change the type of the context parameter passed to
> `comedi_auto_config_helper()` from `void *` to `unsigned long`.  It's
> currently just an internal change and all current internal usages pass
> pointers in the context, but future uses of this function may pass
                                                            ^^^
> integer values

"May?"  Don't make this kind of change until you have a user ready.
Using an unsigned long is uglier than using a void pointer so let's
not do it until it is needed.

Obviously the same thing would apply to the other places.

regards,
dan carpenter



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