Hi, I just spent some time trying to convert some so far PPC-only drivers to be more generic. One of the things I had to do was convert stuff like u32 *val = of_get_property(np, "bla", NULL); do_stuff_with(*val); with of_property_read_u32(np, "bla", &val); do_stuff_with(val); (error checking omitted for simplicity). The problem is that of_get_property() just returns void*. When the property is just a string, there's no problem interpreting that as a char*. But when the property is a number of array of numbers, I'd like some way to flag casting it to u32* as an error - if you cast it to a (pointer to integer type wider than char), it must be to a __be32*. Is there some way sparse/smatch could help find such cases? Rasmus
