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

From: Krzysztof Majzerowicz-Jaszcz
Date: Mon Aug 18 2014 - 11:36:23 EST


On 18/08/14 17:31, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
Ok, so what do you suggest - void* or char* here ?
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