linux-kernel - Re: n2 RNG driver bogus cast removal

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Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 2010 10:26:07 -0400
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	segooon@...il.com, linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: n2 RNG driver bogus cast removal

On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 12:45:14AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> 
> Kulikov, can you at least build test your patches?  Casts are not
> always incorrect, particularly when private cookies are "unsigned
> long" as is the case here:
> 
> drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c: In function ‘n2rng_data_read’:
> drivers/char/hw_random/n2-drv.c:390: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
> 
> Herbert, please revert this change, thanks.  And I suspect there
> might be more of these hwrng driver duds that went into the tree,
> it's worth checking out. :-)

Thanks Dave.  I'll revert it for now.

However, it probably makes sense to change priv into a void *
as most drivers use it as a pointer instead of an integer.

Thanks,
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