Re: [PATCH v1 0/8] zorro: Improve handling of pointers in zorro_device_id::driver_data

On Tue, May 26, 2026 at 05:01:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Uwe,
> 
> On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 16:17, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > this series is about improving the handling of pointers in struct
> > zorro_device_id's driver_data.
> >
> > While it's ok on all current Linux platforms to store a pointer in an
> > unsigned long variable, it involves casting that loses type information.
> > This can be nicely seen in patch #7 where after profiting from patch #6
> > the compiler notices a missing const.
> >
> > Preparing for that change, all zorro_device_ids are converted to use
> > named initializers, which is also a nice cleanup that could stand for
> > itself, as it improves readability for humans. (That is necessary
> > because an anonymous union can be initialized by name, but not using a
> > list initializer.)
> >
> > My motivation for this series is the CHERI hardware extension. With that
> > pointers are bigger than longs and thus you cannot store pointers in
> > zorro_device_id::driver_data. So this series is also about getting
> > support for CHERI into the mainline, but I hope the clean up effects
> > mentioned above are justification enough to accept this series.
> 
> Thanks for your series!
> 
> > The dependencies in this series are as follows:
> >
> >  - Patch #5 depends on #1, #2
> 
> s/5/6/?
> 
> >  - Patches #7 and #8 depend on patch #6.
> >
> > So if the ata maintainers agreed to merge their patch #1 via scsi, and
> > Geert agrees to patch #5 and that it's also merged via scsi, patches #1,
> 
> s/5/6/?

Yes, indeed. And I tried so hard to get all the numbers right :-\

Best regards
Uwe

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