Re: [PATCH][RELEASE] megaraid 2.10.2 Driver

[Jeff Garzik]

Bagalkote, Sreenivas wrote:
> > > ummmm what???    uxferaddr is u32.  why are you casting it to a pointer?
>
>
> Both copy_to_user and copy_from_user take pointers, don't they?


Yes, but consider on x86-64 a native pointer is _always_ 32-bit, 
therefore the interface is broken if it assumes the input pointer is 32 
bits.

	Jeff



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