Re: [PATCH] usb: typec: ucsi: Changing the driver data type to void

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 02:20:03PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 18, 2024 at 03:00:24PM +0300, Heikki Krogerus wrote:
> > Let's use the same data type as struct device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.h b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.h
> > index 97eda8cd63df..1280cac314fe 100644
> > --- a/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.h
> > +++ b/drivers/usb/typec/ucsi/ucsi.h
> > @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ struct ucsi_debugfs_entry {
> >  struct ucsi {
> >  	u16 version;
> >  	struct device *dev;
> > -	struct driver_data *driver_data;
> > +	void *driver_data;
> 
> Nice, but why?
> 
> And how was this building?  I don't see a "struct driver_data" defined
> anywhere here.

I had not even thought about that, but that's weird.

I can write anything after "struct" there, and it will just build
without any warnings or errors. The complier does not seem to even
check the type in this case, since the member is always assigned a
void pointer.

So this is actually a bug, no?

thanks,

-- 
heikki




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