On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Peter Poulsen wrote: > I have noticed __user in some code, when a pointer points to > userspace code. What does that do exaclty? it's meant to denote that the pointer is a pointer to *userspace*, not kernel space. it doesn't actually get involved in the build process, it's for sanity checking for "sparse" just to check for consistency but, from what i remember, it's used fairly erratically throughout the code. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
