Hi,
On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, James Bottomley wrote:
> This is transient code to save the device in the driver_data. It is
> later picked back out at line 229. It conforms to the old programmer
> principle that if you can always guarantee your data takes up less space
> than a pointer (on all archs), then you might as well just cast the data
> into the pointer instead of wasting a malloc for it.
However, it issues a warning.
Regards,
Thunder
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