Re: [PATCH v1 6/8] zorro: Simplify storing pointers in device id struct

[Max Staudt]

On 5/26/26 11:17 PM, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) wrote:
> Technically it is fine (on all current Linux architectures) to store a
> pointer in an unsigned long variable. However this needs explicit
> casting which is an easy source for type mismatches.
>
> By replacing the plain unsigned long .driver_data in struct
> zorro_device_id by an anonymous union, most of the casting can be
> dropped. There is still some implicit casting involved (between a void *
> and a driver specific pointer type), but that's better than the approach
> to store a pointer in an unsigned long variable as this doesn't lose the
> information that the data being pointed to is const.
>
> All users of struct zorro_device_id are initialized in a way that is
> compatible with the new definition, so no adaptions are needed there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


Thanks Uwe!

Reviewed-by: Max Staudt <max@xxxxxxxxx>