single, comprehensive kernel data types document?
Rob Groner
rgroner at rtd.com
Wed Apr 20 16:37:07 EDT 2016
Sorry if this isn't related, it seemed like it was...
I recently discovered one of our drivers isn't written correctly for
64-bit. It uses a uint32_t to hold an address. Whoops.
In previous drivers when I've needed to hold an address, I've used an
"unsigned long", as (so far as I could tell) that would give me the
correct number of bytes whether on 32 or 64-bit systems.
Now that I have to fix this driver, I'd rather do whatever the
"standard" method is for storing an address value.
Looking at code in the kernel and linux/types.h, I see "phys_addr_t and
dma_addr_t. Is that what I want to use? What if it's a virtual
address? void *?
Thanks.
Rob
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