linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci

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Date:   Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:01:49 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To:     Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@...il.com>
Cc:     Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
        Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@...il.com>,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_conn: clean up some casts

On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 12:30:57PM -0700, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:20 AM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
> >
> > The ERR_PTR/PTR_ERR() functions are only for error pointers.  They're
> > not a generic way to cast pointers to int.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
> > ---
> > We should really create INT_PTR/PTR_INT() functions.  But this is a
> > cleanup until someone creates those.
> 
> Is there any reason you didn't create such macros? I mean we could
> have it local first, or perhaps we just do HANDLE_PTR/PTR_HANDLE to
> avoid any confusion.
> 

Yeah.  I can do that.

regards,
dan carpenter