On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 06:34:24PM -0400, Yani Ioannou wrote: > Hi Jean, > > On 5/9/05, Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> wrote: > > Hi Yani, > > > > You could always define a static array of pointers, and use the passed > > int as an index to that array, thus converting the int into a pointer. > > It's not very different from defining a static array of ints and passing > > the int addresses as the void*, but for some reason I tend to prefer the > > int -> pointer conversion (most certainly because my view if awfully > > biased by my misknowledge of the kernel except for the i2c and hardware > > monitoring code). > > Yes, so it is possible just very ugly :-). I'm not sure what I think > of the int->pointer conversion, I guess its a necessary evil. I can't > help feel like I'm doing something wrong when I do it though.. Storing an int or a long in a pointer is just fine, don't feel dirty, it's a natural thing :) More comments on your main patch in a bit... thanks, greg k-h
