The non-posix initializers are a holdover from Windows, where the compiler
doesn't have C99 initializers. We don't need that anymore, so the initializer
can indeed be uncommented.
Cheers, Andreas
> On Nov 24, 2014, at 16:41, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 07:55:41PM +0100, Zahari Doychev wrote:
>> --- a/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/lib-lnet.h
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/include/linux/lnet/lib-lnet.h
>> @@ -784,7 +784,8 @@ lnet_copy_iov2flat(int dlen, void *dest, unsigned int
>> doffset,
>> unsigned int nsiov, struct iovec *siov, unsigned int soffset,
>> unsigned int nob)
>> {
>> - struct iovec diov = {/*.iov_base = */ dest, /*.iov_len = */ dlen};
>> + struct iovec diov = {/*.iov_base = */ (void __user *)dest,
>> + /*.iov_len = */ dlen};
>>
>
> Why can't we just make the comments into code by removing the /*
> characters? Remove the cast by declaring the data as __user data to
> begin with instead of declaring it incorrectly and then casting to the
> correct type later.
>
> Also it's not allowed to send two patches with the exact same subject.
> Also the subject was sucky and too vague anyway. :)
>
> regards,
> dan carpenter
>
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