Re: [PATCH v1 6/8] zorro: Simplify storing pointers in device id struct

On Tue, 26 May 2026 at 16:18, Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Technically it is fine (on all current Linux architectures) to store a
> pointer in an unsigned long variable. However this needs explicit
> casting which is an easy source for type mismatches.
>
> By replacing the plain unsigned long .driver_data in struct
> zorro_device_id by an anonymous union, most of the casting can be
> dropped. There is still some implicit casting involved (between a void *
> and a driver specific pointer type), but that's better than the approach
> to store a pointer in an unsigned long variable as this doesn't lose the
> information that the data being pointed to is const.
>
> All users of struct zorro_device_id are initialized in a way that is
> compatible with the new definition, so no adaptions are needed there.
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König (The Capable Hub) <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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