On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:57:37 Al Viro wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 11:19:44PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > > This patch lets timer callback functions have their natural type > > (ie. exactly match the data pointer type); it allows the old "unsigned > > long data" type as well. > > > > Downside: if you use the old "unsigned long" callback type, you won't > > get a warning if your data is not an unsigned long, due to the cast. > > No. There's much saner way to do that and it does not involve any gccisms > at all. I'd posted such patches quite a while ago; normal C constructs > are quite sufficient, TYVM.
If you're referring to your 1 Dec 2006 posting, it was enlightening, but I was unable to find any patches. I'd be interested in seeing what you ended up with; I agree it'd be nice to kill that unsigned long. Thanks, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
