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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:10:03 -0700 From: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> To: Rob Clark <robdclark@...il.com> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@...ovan.org>, Gustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@...labora.co.uk>, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>, Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, Daniel Stone <daniels@...labora.com>, Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>, Riley Andrews <riandrews@...roid.com>, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>, Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>, John Harrison <John.C.Harrison@...el.com>, Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@...ux.intel.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>, Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...el.com>, linuxppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] kernel.h: add to_user_ptr() On Thu, 2016-03-17 at 16:50 -0400, Rob Clark wrote: > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:40 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote: [] > > It's a name that seems like it should be a straightforward > > cast of a kernel pointer to a __user pointer like: > > > > static inline void __user *to_user_ptr(void *p) > > { > > return (void __user *)p; > > } > ahh, ok. I guess I was used to using it in the context of ioctl > structs.. in that context u64 -> (void __user *) made more sense. > > Maybe uapi_to_ptr()? (ok, not super-creative.. maybe someone has a > better idea) Maybe u64_to_user_ptr?
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