Re: [PATCH RESEND v2 14/23] proc: let procfs copy in writes before pinning the entry

From: Maciej W. Rozycki

Date: Mon Nov 09 2026 - 00:07:11 EST


On Sun, 8 Nov 2026, David Laight wrote:

> > > While at it, I think it would be good to use this conversion as an
> > > opportunity to replace "char *" by "void *", which will probably let
> > > you drop several casts from users.
> >
> > So I tried that too. The thing is it drops exactly one u8 * cast in
> > ntfs3's label write.
>
> Since char is now unsigned that one isn't even needed...

Please excuse me missing the context, but what circumstances does your
claim refer to?

Maciej