[PATCHv2 4/5] block/sed: Embed function data into the function sequence

Christoph Hellwig hch at lst.de
Sat Feb 18 08:22:03 PST 2017


On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 08:52:19AM -0700, Scott Bauer wrote:
> >> +static int set_mbr_done(struct opal_dev *dev, void *data)
> >>  {
> >> -	u8 mbr_done_tf = *(u8 *)dev->func_data[dev->state];
> >> +	u8 mbr_done_tf = *(u8 *)data;
> > 
> > No need for casts when going from void * to any pointer type.  There are
> > a couple more instance below where the cast should be removed as well.
> 
> In this case he's actually casting & dereferencing the pointer, so it should be fine in this scenario?

Oh, right.  As-is we'll obviously need the casts.  But what we could
do instead is the following:

	u8 *mbr_done_tf = data;

	..

	add_token_u8(&err, dev, *mbr_done_tf); /* Done T or F */

or alternatively just pass the whole struct opal_mbr_data pointer
as the private data.



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