Re: [RFC v3 37/45] nfs/sunrpc: No more encode and decode function pointer casting

From: Trond Myklebust
Date: Thu May 28 2015 - 19:12:16 EST


On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher
<andreas.gruenbacher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Instead of casting the encode and decode functions to the required type when
> assigning them to the p_encode and p_decode members of struct rpc_procinfo,
> define the functions with their proper type and cast the additional obj
> argument to the appropriate type inside those functions. This allows slightly
> better type checking by the compiler at the cost of slightly more verbose code.

How is this even remotely relevant to ACL functionality, and why does
it deserve to bypass the NFS tree?

Trond
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