On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:49 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 14:23:27 -0700 > >> no compat layer and type checking will be done >> by syscall wrappers. Ok? > > Why are you against using strong typing just for everything other > than the user pointer blobs? > > I don't understand the resistence to my suggestion to just use > aligned_u64 instead of "void __user *" in the union members. All these different variants are ok to me. There are pros and cons to either approach. I'm not against strong typing. I just thought it would be cleaner not to use 'union' and was asking for opinion. That's all. Sure, I will keep 'union' and only change pointers to __aligned_u64. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
