Re: [PATCH] drivers: net: ethernet: intel: e1000: e1000_ethtool.c coding style fixes

[Joe Perches]

On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 08:29 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
> Doing any kind of pointer math on a void pointer is generally unsafe as
> it is an incomplete type.  The only reason why it works in GCC is
> because GCC has a nonstandard extension that makes it report as having a
> size of 1.

I know.  It's used in quite a few places in kernel code
so I believe it's now a base assumption for the kernel.



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