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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 23:00:38 +1100 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        <des@ofug.org>, <arch@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: caddr_t sweep
Message-ID:  <20020316225716.I28305-100000@gamplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020315.213757.117909745.imp@village.org>

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On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote:

> In message: <xzp7kodxki8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
>             Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> writes:
> : I'm preparing a sweep that will remove incorrect caddr_t casts in
> : copy{in,out,str,instr}(), bcopy() and bzero() calls in the kernel.
> ...
>
> i'd like to take a look at this patch before you commit it please.
> There are many driver uses of bcopy that are non-obvious and likely
> should be bus_space_read instead...

Maybe limit it to copy* and other userland interfaces (mmap?) then.
There are also some bcopies which should be struct assignments.

Bruce


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