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| author | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2010-01-15 17:01:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-01-16 12:15:38 -0800 |
| commit | 8ecc2951534af10e04ddb5e5ff5c6d217b79f5c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 44c8400754bc42a072fe7dc117696ebb5699920e /include/linux/kfifo.h | |
| parent | 2427b8e3eaea3719e53bbed7b3375382c3aa6f13 (diff) | |
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kfifo: use void * pointers for user buffers
The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers. Use void *
instead.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kfifo.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kfifo.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kfifo.h b/include/linux/kfifo.h index c4ac88b3c302..6fb495ea956a 100644 --- a/include/linux/kfifo.h +++ b/include/linux/kfifo.h @@ -104,15 +104,15 @@ union { \ #undef __kfifo_initializer -extern void kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned char *buffer, +extern void kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, void *buffer, unsigned int size); extern __must_check int kfifo_alloc(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned int size, gfp_t gfp_mask); extern void kfifo_free(struct kfifo *fifo); extern unsigned int kfifo_in(struct kfifo *fifo, - const unsigned char *from, unsigned int len); + const void *from, unsigned int len); extern __must_check unsigned int kfifo_out(struct kfifo *fifo, - unsigned char *to, unsigned int len); + void *to, unsigned int len); /** * kfifo_reset - removes the entire FIFO contents @@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ static inline __must_check unsigned int kfifo_avail(struct kfifo *fifo) * bytes copied. */ static inline unsigned int kfifo_in_locked(struct kfifo *fifo, - const unsigned char *from, unsigned int n, spinlock_t *lock) + const void *from, unsigned int n, spinlock_t *lock) { unsigned long flags; unsigned int ret; @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ static inline unsigned int kfifo_in_locked(struct kfifo *fifo, * @to buffer and returns the number of copied bytes. */ static inline __must_check unsigned int kfifo_out_locked(struct kfifo *fifo, - unsigned char *to, unsigned int n, spinlock_t *lock) + void *to, unsigned int n, spinlock_t *lock) { unsigned long flags; unsigned int ret; |