Le Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:28:53 +0100,
Peter Poulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :
> I have noticed __user in some code, when a pointer points to
> userspace code. What does that do exaclty?
AFAIK, they are used by sparse[1] to verify that the kernel code doesn't
access directly to pointers pointing
On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Peter Poulsen wrote:
> I have noticed __user in some code, when a pointer points to
> userspace code. What does that do exaclty?
it's meant to denote that the pointer is a pointer to *userspace*, not
kernel space. it doesn't actually get involved in the build process,
it's fo
I have noticed __user in some code, when a pointer points to userspace
code. What does that do exaclty?
/peter
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