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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] drivers: net: ethernet: intel: e1000: e1000_ethtool.c coding style fixes
    On 18/08/14 17:31, Joe Perches wrote:
    > On Mon, 2014-08-18 at 08:29 -0700, Alexander Duyck wrote:
    >> Doing any kind of pointer math on a void pointer is generally unsafe as
    >> it is an incomplete type. The only reason why it works in GCC is
    >> because GCC has a nonstandard extension that makes it report as having a
    >> size of 1.
    >
    > I know. It's used in quite a few places in kernel code
    > so I believe it's now a base assumption for the kernel.
    >
    >
    >
    Ok, so what do you suggest - void* or char* here ?


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